Chicago First City With Citizens Sending Photos, Videos To 911

Chicago Sun-Times:

Chicago has become the first U.S. city to allow residents calling 911 to send photos and videos of the incidents from their cell phones, officials say.

All the images are sent to the police department's crime-prevention information center, which reviews them to see whether they should be distributed to first responders or detectives investigating the incident.

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Comments

[LeftLeanWing]

02:31 AM on 03/16/2011

Great Great idea !

I was wondering when this was going to happen.....

If GPS information is sent along with the image(s)... with a TimeDate Stamp
Even Better .....