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Staten Island Basketball League player: Lieutenant Michael Ricupero-New York City Police Department

Once every few weeks, Lt. Michael Ricupero rushes from the second floor of One Police Plaza, NYPD’s iconic headquarters in Lower Manhattan, to join fellow cops at a nearby scene of a crime. He leaves a large room packed with wall-mounted monitors and multi-screen workstations, high-fives several patrol officers on his way down, jumps in a squad car and races to the scene he had just analyzed, armed with his service weapon — and tons of data.

“It’s amazing to see when it all comes together,” says the 19-year veteran of the New York City Police Department. Ricupero is in charge of investigations, facial recognition and special projects at the agency’s real time crime center.

Real time crime centers, or RTCCs, have been around for almost two decades but started to boom in the past few years. Today, over 300 police departments across the U.S. have a centralized technology hub, according to the National Real-Time Crime Center Association.

At RTCCs, police gather and analyze data in real or close to real time. The goal is to support officers and detectives in the field. Real time crime centers gather surveillance, intelligence and other data from multiple sources — including video, computer-aided dispatch (CAD), automated license plate readers (LPR), gunshot detection sensors, records management systems and GPS mapping — and integrate the data into one information ecosystem.

NYPD’s real time crime center was the first to open in 2005 and is among the nation’s largest, with several thousand integrated public and private cameras. It serves 77 precincts and supports 36,000 officers.

Reference – https://www.police1.com/tech-pulse/at-nypds-real-time-crime-center-the-future-of-policing-has-arrived