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Chief: technology has reshaped police work; current data show violent and property crimes down from last year
Summary
Dennis Orender said technology — body cameras, mobile data terminals and cell‑phone video — has been the biggest change in policing since the 1990s, and he reported violent crime and property crime were down compared with the same time last year in Phoenix.
Phoenix’s interim police chief said technological change — body cameras, mobile data terminals and ubiquitous video — has significantly altered police work since the 1990s, and he told Councilman Jim Wherry that recent citywide violent-crime and property-crime figures are lower than a year earlier.
Dennis Orender, interim police chief of…
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