And then YPD headquarters just across from City Hall, there's a place called the real-time

crime center.

It's a big room that has a giant monitor at the front of it that has pictures of tattoos,

of footage from surveillance cameras, of other police databases.

This is Unheld Diaz.

He's a lawyer at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU.

And all around it are a series of desks where individual officers that are part of the

real-time crime center are crunching searches and other information to try and investigate

crimes.

It looks like the Hollywood version of a high-tech police department.

The police were a plucky investigator says, enhanced, and the purpose faced snaps into

view.

There's a two-story screen at the front of a dark room.

Rose and Rose of detectives sit in the darkness.

And they say real-time because they're talking about this is not like looking into cold

cases.

They're saying that this is the nerve center for what is actually happening on the streets

of New York.

That's right.

It's connected to thousands and thousands of public and private CCTV cameras.

It's connected to hundreds of different license plate readers.

It has access to all the information that's being uploaded related to people's social

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