JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The City of Jacksonville agreed to receive $730,000 from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office’s Real Time Crime Center in Tuesday’s city council meeting.
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The agreement states that about $472,000 will be used to purchase surveillance cameras for the crime center and $258,000 will be used for the installation across the city.
The real-time crime center has helped investigators identify the driver and make an arrest in a deadly hit-and-run crash that killed a star student-athlete.
In the summer of 2023, when a man murdered three people in a racially motivated attack at a Dollar General, it was the center’s cameras that recorded critical information that helped officers piece together a timeline of events.
In April 2024, a stray bullet hit a school bus in the Hogan’s Creek area. A camera caught a Jeep leaving the scene and tracked it back to a home.
The crime center was operational in 2019 when the city first invested $3 million into the center.
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