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Commissioners press sheriff's office for more analysis of Mount Clemens real-time policing dashboard
Summary
City commissioners reviewed a new public dashboard from the sheriff's office that shows Mount Clemens calls for service, written reports and citations in near real time; they praised the transparency but requested address-level context, comparative graphs and periodic briefings to make the data actionable.
Mount Clemens — City commissioners spent much of a work session reviewing a new public dashboard from the sheriff's office that streams in incident, report and citation data and updates every 10 minutes.
A sheriff's office representative told commissioners the tool is "part of the sheriff's office, ongoing effort to promote transparency, accountability, and community trust," and that the dashboard pulls automatically from the department's Tyler Technologies dispatch and records-management systems so "nobody's picking and choosing what to put in" the public view.
Why it matters: The dashboard centralizes call-for-service, crime-reporting and citation counts and can show month-by-month trends. Commissioners said that access to this data could help them target patrols and staffing but that, as configured now, the dashboard lacks the analytic context they need — for example, address-level historical listings and comparison graphs — to turn raw counts into policy decisions.
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