helping them solve crimes faster and with less effort. since the early 1990s, crime rates have steadily declined across the country. one possible explanation? smarter data driven policing. here in los angeles, the lapd is embracing new technologies and big data analytics like never before, changing the way we fight crime. watch commander sergeant kennedy showed us how big data analysis is changing the force. this is our license plate reader. we have three cameras taxed to the light bar. lnls plate readers installed on patrol cars have become common place and they automatically scan every license plate that drives by. it goes through the sacramento database to check for california vehicle systems to see if it is stolen or if there is a want on it for some reason. got an alert. a $30,000 warrant on the parked car that we just passed that is right behind us. over the course of the day the lapd can scan tens of thousands of lnls plates across
you thank everybody that s been there. if i was fortunate to have a sat phone with me that i was able to call back home and dedicate my summit to alzheimer s that took my mom. it s just a joyous moment. the reality of are where you are and you have to get back down the mountain safely. we re limited on time, but i was going to say you really haven t summited unless you make it down safely, right? that s correct. there s one man that has climbed all the mountains without oxygen is fond of saying, the summit is optional, the return is mandatory. that s quite an achievement. we really appreciate you having been here. thank you. should license plate readers constantly be snapping pictures and storing data? we just found out how the technology can make a real
happen to get images of his car and more. so this picture shows my car parked in the driveway of my house, very clearly shows my daughters and myself getting out of. reporter: the scanner is always on. any time a police officers drives the car, it s recording, stories license plates on the servers. in just a few minutes. police say the data can later be accessed to solve crimes. but he says a line has clearly been crossed. innocent people should not have their records being stored by law enforcement. reporter: law enforcement has wholeheartedly embraced this technology. more than a third are using automated plate readers, according to a study by george mason university. three cameras on the car. they capture plates instantaneously, cross-checked
ultimately consist of about 3,000 cameras. these are both public and private sector cameras, radiation detector, licens plate readers. we have a coordination center not too far from here where we have both public and private sector stakeholders who work he on a 24-hour basis. we re taking that technology and migrating it north to midtown manhattan. and we re building a midtown manhattan security iniative. so we re using a lot of technology. we hope to use a lot more of it. obviously as technology is developed, we want to utilize that as well. t and, sir, that proposed islamic center and mosque that s not too far away from where you re standing but literally two blocks away from itthe worl trade center site, where those towers once stood, is that presenting any specific challenge for your police force today? i know we have dualing protests that are going to be taking place down there today. yeah, well, we ll have at least six. protests today. may have more sort of ad hoc