{"id":497992,"date":"2026-10-16T11:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/497992\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:04:38","slug":"sdpd-chief-defends-cameras-newsradio-600-kogo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/497992\/","title":{"rendered":"SDPD Chief Defends Cameras | Newsradio 600 KOGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl is firing back at City Council efforts to shut down the city\u2019s license plate cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Wahl says the technology has helped solve more than 900 cases in three years\u2014including hate crimes and an attempted child kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>His comments follow a press conference Tuesday  where Council member Stephen Whitburn reversed his support for the system, citing immigration concerns.<\/p>\n<p>But Wahl is drawing a hard line, stating the department has never shared camera data for immigration purposes, and is urging leaders to make safety decisions based on facts, not politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl is firing back at City Council efforts to shut down the city\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2946,66938,117825,23,100,236,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-497992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-keywords","tag-kogo-news","tag-license-plate-cameras","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-police","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497992","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=497992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}