{"id":217754,"date":"2026-03-13T06:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T06:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217754\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T06:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T06:47:12","slug":"tracy-police-see-reduced-crime-quicker-response-times-utilizing-modern-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217754\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracy police see reduced crime, quicker response times utilizing modern technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tracy Police Department is utilizing modern technology to help it combat crime and said it is seeing results after building an innovative real-time information center (RTIC) last August.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Sacramento spoke with Lieutenant Daniel Garcia, who said the department is still trying to grow it because it&#8217;s &#8220;the future of policing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Garcia said this is San Joaquin County&#8217;s first active real-time information center.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of our effective tools right now is looking at the camera systems that we have around our city to observe the issues that we&#8217;re having,&#8221; Garcia said.<\/p>\n<p>The RTIC operators listen to 911 calls and have eyes on the issue, giving the officers information from what they see from the 133-plus cameras throughout Tracy. Garcia said they&#8217;ve seen some success stories from the RTIC, including operators finding missing people and identifying them, finding people who have weapons in the streets, and stopping burglaries and car thefts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re all in it for this community. We want to make sure that our community, they always back us up, and we want to back them up because they&#8217;re important to us,&#8221; Garcia said. &#8220;And so making sure that we provide them that effective tool of public safety is important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tracy police community relations coordinator Kaylin Heefner told CBS News Sacramento that violent crimes \u2014 homicide, rape, and aggravated assault \u2014 are down 30%, and property crimes \u2014 vehicle thefts, burglaries, and arson \u2014 are down 13% from 2024 to 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Heefner also said the department&#8217;s overall response time has improved significantly, with some calls seeing response times shortened by as much as 47 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Heefner was born and raised in Tracy. She said it&#8217;s &#8220;extremely important&#8221; that her community is safe. She enjoys being &#8220;part of the team that works together to make that happen and then (to) share that information with the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are also drones that their patrol teams have. Garcia said they are looking to fly drones out of their RTIC and are looking to add a crime analyst within the RTIC, as well.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tracy Police Department is utilizing modern technology to help it combat crime and said it is seeing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,13722,20531],"class_list":["post-217754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-san-joaquin-county","tag-tracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}