Atlanta’s Operation Shield Video Integration Center (VIC) started with a mere 17 city-funded cameras three years ago. Now, it has access to more than 1,800 cameras across three main neighborhoods: Buckhead, Midtown and Downtown. The city wasn’t responsible for shelling out all of the funding for those surveillance cameras, however; it relied on public-private partnerships.
Businesses, community groups and infrastructure in these areas of Atlanta have come together to share access to their surveillance cameras in what the VIC’s Sergeant M.L. Ellis calls “the future of law enforcement.”