Government Technology: Michigan State Police supervisors could remotely monitor pursuits and other critical incidents in real time under a $2.3-million plan to provide for livestreaming of the agency's patrol car dashboard cameras.
The proposed technology upgrade — included in Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's 2019 state budget proposal and believed to be a first among Michigan police agencies — follows an August 2017 incident in which a 15-year-old Detroit teenager crashed his ATV and died after a trooper fired a Taser at him from a pursuing patrol car.
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