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Speaker D

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"Uh, it's not technology, uh, it's not license plate readers, it's not the right to privacy. It is, I live in this community and those speed bumps would kind of help me feel a little more secure because I got kids running around, don't want to get hit by a car. Um, and so I, I think it's always important that we keep We keep that into perspective that the vast majority of the population that we have here in the community are concerned about things that are like just the daily mundane, "I just need this a little bit better and my life gets a lot better." Two more slides for you. The first one, and you've seen this slide before, there's been academic research on real-time crime centers, peer-reviewed published articles from academic settings on what real-time crime centers look like, the impact they have on solvability. You see the study on the left from Hartford, Connecticut, 442% more likely to solve cases where there's real-time crime center activity involved, and reduction in crime when we have real-time crime centers."

Uh, it's not technology, uh, it's not license plate readers, it's not the right to privacy. It is, I live in this community and those speed bumps would kind of help me feel a little more secure because I got kids running around, don't want to get hit by a car. Um, and so I, I think it's always important that we keep We keep that into perspective that the vast majority of the population that we have here in the community are concerned about things that are like just the daily mundane, "I just need this a little bit better and my life gets a lot better." Two more slides for you. The first one, and you've seen this slide before, there's been academic research on real-time crime centers, peer-reviewed published articles from academic settings on what real-time crime centers look like, the impact they have on solvability. You see the study on the left from Hartford, Connecticut, 442% more likely to solve cases where there's real-time crime center activity involved, and reduction in crime when we have real-time crime centers.
Speaker
Speaker D
Community
Alaska News
Location
Anchorage
Captured at
August 21, 2026

From the transcript

Uh, it's not technology, uh, it's not license plate readers, it's not the right to privacy. It is, I live in this community and those speed bumps would kind of help me feel a little more secure because I got kids running around, don't want to get hit by a car. Um, and so I, I think it's always important that we keep We keep that into perspective that the vast majority of the population that we have here in the community are concerned about things that are like just the daily mundane, "I just need this a little bit better and my life gets a lot better." Two more slides for you. The first one, and you've seen this slide before, there's been academic research on real-time crime centers, peer-reviewed published articles from academic settings on what real-time crime centers look like, the impact they have on solvability. You see the study on the left from Hartford, Connecticut, 442% more likely to solve cases where there's real-time crime center activity involved, and reduction in crime when we have real-time crime centers.

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