As violence and shooting within Chicago-area expressways continues to increase year-over-year, the Governor, Illinois Department of Transportation, Chicago Department of Transportation and Illinois State Police will install 200 cameras in surrounding expressways to help solve crimes.

The New York Police Department is testing software that uses neighborhood-specific data and past criminal activity to create statistical models that forecast where and when certain crimes are likely to occur.

The California State Senate is considering a bill to prohibit law enforcement agencies in California from selling data collected by automatic license plate readers.

Public disclosures about U.S. government surveillance threaten the ability of police to use powerful new technologies such as drones and mobile license plate readers.