CLEVELAND — A real-time crime center can monitor your school, business or organization live. It's part of the camera-sharing system Safe Smart CLE.
Homeowners can register for free as long as they already have a surveillance camera. If they don't have a camera, that's something they pay for themselves. There isn't a live feed option for homeowners, but here is for businesses, which can help catch something serious is real-time.
"We look at public safety in general and public safety. Everybody thinks of police when they think of public safety, but we have other divisions," said Nicole Carlton, assistant director of public safety for the city of Cleveland.
In other words, it's not just about curbing the high-crime rate in our city. Currently, there are 1,955 cameras in Cleveland schools, colleges, and businesses.
"It could be something as a child missing, an elderly person who wanders away, think of the greatness of that where you can follow that person and find them very quickly just by looking at cameras," said Carlton. "Fires that happen where fire can actually look at something and say, 'Wow, this is expanding or we need to do it.?' So it's a network, a community, and the see something, say something ... this is helping us see and have eyes across the city."
"Sadly, we continue to see unprecedented levels of violence plaguing our community. We are doing everything we possibly can to reverse these trends; however, we cannot do it alone and need help from everyone in our community,” said Cleveland Mayor Justin M. Bibb in a statement. “It’s our hope, by empowering residents and businesses to be part of the solution, that we’ll be able to save more lives together.”
Cleveland isn't the only city integrating a camera-sharing system. The city of Atlanta currently has 15,000 cameras citywide. That's something Carlton says our city would like to achieve in the next few years.
To read more about Safe Smart CLE, click here.
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