View source for Briefcam used by Springfield, MA Police

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|Information Certainty=Documented
|CiteRef=briefcamBriefCamWorkSafe2022
|Deployment Status=Ongoing
|Deployment Type=Analytics, Biometric Cameras, Criminal investigations
|Has event={{HasEvent|||Documented}}
|City=Springfield (MA)
|Country=USA
|managed by=Springfield Police Department
|used by=Springfield Police Department
|Datasets Used=Briefcam (Dataset), Unknown Dataset 0061
|Software Deployed=Video Synopsis (Briefcam)
}}
BriefCam reports that Springfield Police Department use BriefCam. The department has since introduced a moratorium on FRT and denied that they have ever used it. They may still use BriefCam for other forms of video analysis. It is unclear when they first began using BriefCam.

<blockquote> The Springfield, Massachusetts Police Department launched its Real-Time Analysis Center (R-TAC) three years ago as part of its commitment to using the newest tools of the digital age to give officers the most current information for real time crime analysis and situational awareness. The BriefCam VCA software is an integral component of the R-TAC because it allows analysts to quickly review footage from traffic cameras at any of several dozen locations around the city. Analysts can condense hours of footage into a couple of minutes and enable police to pinpoint objects of interest, filtering out irrelevant objects. When a 911 call comes in, dispatchers coordinate the address on the map with the nearest traffic cameras in the area to see if there is footage of potential suspects coming or going. If there’s a description of a car fleeing the scene, they can quickly review footage from cameras nearby, filtering out traffic that does not match the description. Working with information in realtime increases officer and civilian safety as officers respond to incidents. During a recent fatal shooting incident, R-TAC analysts were able to quickly view several perspectives of the crime scene via different cameras, and deliver timely, accurate and actionable information to the responding officers [[CiteRef::briefcamBriefCamWorkSafe2022]] </blockquote>
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