In the last five years, violent crime has gone down by 5% in Little Rock, which is something the mayor says can be attributed to new technology.
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — The Little Rock Police Department has been pushing to build on the early success of its real-time crime center, but to do that they need more people and cameras to join.
“I think that cameras have a 100% benefit,” said Samuel Ellis. “Because if anything happens we have a face, license plate number.”
Ellis is the owner of Rock Town River Outfitters, and he is someone who signed his business up to be a part of the real-time crime center.
When a crime happens in a certain area LRPD will then send a notification to all of those who are in the program so that they can check their cameras.
“We’ve only scratched the surface of what I believe …