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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Yahoo
Three arrested - including 17-year-old girl - after ‘absolutely vicious' beating in Pioneer Square
Seattle police arrested three suspects Wednesday night after a man was brutally beaten and robbed in Pioneer Square, according to the Seattle Police Department. Around 11 p.m. on August 6, officers responded to a report of an assault near the 300 block of South Main Street. When they arrived, they found a 42-year-old man on the ground with a bleeding head wound. His wallet, phone, and shoes had been taken, police said. Officers provided medical aid until Seattle Fire Department medics arrived and transported him to Harborview Medical Center. He was listed in serious condition. Investigators reviewed nearby surveillance footage and described the attack as one of the most brutal and unprovoked assaults they've encountered. The video reportedly shows three suspects punching the man in the head and knocking him to the ground, then continuing to punch and kick him as he lay defenseless. One of the suspects reportedly returned after the initial assault and delivered another kick to the man's head with such force that officers compared it to kicking a soccer ball or football. A witness said the man lost consciousness during the attack. Officers later located the suspects near 6th Avenue and South Jackson Street, with help from surveillance cameras operated by the department's Real Time Crime Center. One of the arrests was recorded on those cameras. Three people were taken into custody: A 28-year-old man was booked into King County Jail on robbery charges. A 24-year-old man allegedly grabbed at an officer's firearm while being detained. Police requested additional charges of attempting to disarm a law enforcement officer and obstructing a public officer. He was also booked into King County Jail. A 17-year-old girl ran from officers before being caught. She was booked into juvenile detention at the Judge Patricia H. Clark Children & Family Justice Center. Police also requested a charge of obstructing a public officer. Officers recovered the victim's stolen items from one of the suspects and returned them to him at the hospital.
Geek Wire
15-07-2025
- Politics
- Geek Wire
‘It's a game-changer': Seattle touts high-tech Real Time Crime Center amid privacy concerns
Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes speaks at a media event Tuesday for the city's new Real Time Crime Center. Back row, from left: Mayor Bruce Harrell (white shirt); Councilmember Bob Kettle, Councilmember Sara Nelson, and Councilmember Maritza Rivera. (GeekWire Photos / Taylor Soper) The Seattle Police Department has formally launched a new high-tech operations center designed to help officers fight crime in real time — and is already seeing results, according to city officials. Mayor Bruce Harrell, SPD Chief Shon Barnes, and city councilmembers hosted a media event Tuesday touting the new Real Time Crime Center, located inside the police headquarters in downtown Seattle. The center pulls live footage and data from surveillance cameras and other sources into a centralized command room staffed by analysts nearly 20 hours a day. It supports ongoing investigations by pushing video and incident data directly to patrol units and detectives. Analysts can provide live updates and still images of suspects, a capability SPD says helps support its 'precision policing' model. In just under two months, the system has been used in 600 incidents and is actively aiding 90 investigations, according to city officials. Harrell called the system a 'game changer.' 'This is not a panacea, but it does mean we are fulfilling our promise to use every tool available to improve public safety,' he said. Not everyone is on board with the new effort, which takes advantage of new police-owned CCTV cameras in the downtown core, along Aurora Ave., and in the Chinatown-International District. ACLU of Washington last year cited 'evidence that these technologies do not reduce violent crime and disproportionately harm communities of color.' 'SPD's use of RTCC software would make it possible for ICE and out-of-state agencies to access data to arrest immigrants and prosecute people coming to Seattle for reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare while bypassing state protections,' ACLU said in a statement in September. Captain James Britt said data requests from outside agencies — including federal law enforcement — are screened and must comply with state and local laws. 'We control where all of our data goes,' he said. Captain James Britt shows live camera feeds as part of SPD's new Real Time Crime Center. The center, part of a broader crime prevention technology pilot launched under Harrell, uses software called Fusus built by Axon, the police body cam and taser giant that has an engineering office in Seattle. Axon last year acquired Fusus, a leader in real-time crime center technology. Britt said the software does not use facial recognition, gait analysis, or other biometric tools — but it can search video using keywords like 'red shirt' or 'black Toyota,' and it flags potential matches for human review. The city says it completed required Surveillance Impact Reports and has launched a third-party academic evaluation led by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. In a follow-up interview with GeekWire, Britt emphasized that the system is not about replacing people — but rather enhancing staff capabilities. SPD has been increasing staffing after losing officers in recent years. 'All this technology has an incredible capability to change the way we do policing — to make us better, faster, and more precise at what we do,' Britt said. 'That's really what those of us in the uniform really want. 'We want to be able to do our jobs better — not more aggressively, not more broadly. We want to do what we do, but we want to do it better, and this helps us do that.' The center actually launched a decade ago but the initial version wasn't as integrated into real-time policing. A new legislative proposal would expand CCTV surveillance to Capitol Hill's nightlife area, SODO near the stadiums, and neighborhoods around Garfield and Nova High Schools. Harrell has supported a controversial gunshot detection technology system but said last year that the city would not allocate money to the initiative.
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
New DPD high-tech space combines tools to solve crime faster
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — At the beginning of the year, the Dayton Police Department implemented a new technology to help them crack down on crimes in just hours. The Real Time Crime Center is a recent upgrade for DPD, having already led to dozens of arrests since it began in January. 2 NEWS visited the room to learn more about how the high-tech space is solving crimes. In the first two months, DPD said it was able to make 21 arrests and assist in 25 more by using the Real Time Crime Room. The department says the room even helped them solve one crime in less than an hour. 'So start to finish, from the time the call came in to the time that we had the suspect and gun recovered was about an hour,' said Major Paul Saunders, DPD. The Real Time Crime Room allowed DPD to track down the suspect in a shooting on Rugby Avenue, along with recovering fentanyl within an hour. With situations like this, Dayton police said they are getting a return on their investment. 'It has been wildly successful,' said Saunders. 'And I will say, technology without the people to operate it and effectively leverage it, is just like boxes and computers and screens.' Major Saunders is the push behind the operation, telling 2 NEWS how the room uses several technologies all in one space. This includes over 50 public safety cameras, 911 call records, the FLOCKOS system — which allows community members to live share their video — and over 70 license plate readers from across the city. 'We've had the technology for a long time, but they have not always been able to be accessed in one place,' said Joe Parlette, deputy city manager. Parlette said the room was created with the help of grant funding, general department funds and support from the city. 'In this case, absolute support and trust in Major Saunders to do it right,' said Parlette. Saunders says the help keeps them at the top of their game. 'Political leaders have shown support for the efforts to keep us efficient and at the top of our technology game,' said Saunders. The city of Dayton is looking to receive grant funding to support similar technology to expand the fire department next. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Los Angeles Times
19-05-2025
- Los Angeles Times
5 Alleged members of ‘transnational' crime ring busted in Orange County
Irvine police have arrested four men and a woman believed to be part of a transnational organized crime ring, authorities said. The investigation began at about 1:45 p.m. on Easter Sunday, April 20, when a resident on Cultivate called the Irvine Police Department after getting alerts from his home surveillance system showing males unknown to him inside his residence, police said Friday. IPD officers responded to the residence, which had been ransacked, and learned that multiple items, including designer purses, shoes and jewelry, had been stolen. The resident provided officers with still-shot photographs of the suspects so they could be on the lookout for any subjects matching the description. An officer monitoring the perimeter spotted a suspicious vehicle leaving the area and initiated a stop. 'The driver said he was delivering food to a customer through a food delivery phone application, but could not provide the address where he delivered it. During a search of his car, suspicious items were located, leading officers to believe he may be involved in criminal activity,'' police said. The driver was arrested for allegedly being unlicensed. He was identified as a 24-year-old Fontana resident Jhon Osorioarias. 'IPD detectives conducted an exhaustive investigation of Osorioarias and determined he was involved with an organized burglary crew,' police said. 'Detectives were able to identify several of his associates. Over the past month, detectives conducted daily surveillance of the crew and were able to link them to other burglaries throughout Southern California,' the department added. On Thursday, with the help of the IPD drone team, Real Time Crime Center, and IPD detectives, an operation was conducted that resulted in the arrest of Osorioarias, and his alleged accomplices in the city of Fontana. The other suspects arrested were identified as Jesus Hernandezchavez, 42, Fontana; John Fredy Sanabria, 42, of Fontana; Duber Salarte, 48, of Fontana, and Isneidy Ortiz Valencia, 29, of Colton. The suspects were booked at the Orange County Jail on various charges, including burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary and possession of narcotics. Search warrants were served in the cities of Fontana and Colton, where multiple items of evidence were collected, including property linking the group to a residential burglary in Irvine, police said. Anyone with information about the case was asked to contact Detective Jeff Hause at jhause@ or 949-724-7085.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Yahoo
How civilians are changing the way police work is done
Editor's Note: This is part two in a four part series. The other parts can be found at the bottom of this article. COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Inside the basement of the Columbus Police Department on 10th street, a unique partnership between officers and civilian analysts has formed. Civilians sift through hours of video footage to send updates to officers in the field to help move cases along inside the Real Time Crime Center. The crime center is room filled wall to wall with large monitors displaying cameras police have access to from across the city. Two analysts work at their desks inside the Real Time Crime Center (Chuck Williams/WRBL). Staffing the center with veteran police officers and investigators is a large ask, given the months it takes it get an officer trained. The answer to staffing lies in recruiting civilian analysts. At the end of a hallway in the basement of the Public Safety Building on 10th Street in Columbus, Ga. sits the logo of the Columbus Police Department's Real Time Crime Center (Nick Bentley/WRBL). According to Columbus Police Chief Stoney Mathis these analysts bring with them an expertise that offsets their lack of traditional law enforcement training. 'The civilians bring a different perspective because they don't know anything about the law enforcement side of it, but they know technology and we can hire some of these and they get criticized,' Mathis said. 'Some of the millennials, they come in there way more proficient in this technology than a lot of our seasoned police officers.' These civilian analysts are not alone in the center. Sworn officers work with the analyst to discover the investigative details the analyst may have overlooked. The rubbing of shoulders and cooperation helps form the culture of the Crime Center. The partnership is at the forefront of a fresh way to combine old school crime fighting techniques with 21st century technology. Sgt. Max Todd (Left) and three civilian analyst (right) work at their desks inside the Real Time Crime Center (Nick Bentley/WRBL). Mathis says the civilian analyst position offers a new way for people to enter the field of a law enforcement and protect their communities. 'These young millenials, although they are really, really intelligent, they don't wanna put their hands on somebody to arrest them.' Beyond the Beat continues in these articles: Part 1: Columbus Real Time Crime Center at forefront of dramatic change in policing Part 3: Real Time Crime Center offers Columbus Police information that leads to arrests Part 4: Beyond the Beat: How the Real Time Crime Center is shaping the future of policing Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WRBL.
