Real-Time Policing: How Technology Is Transforming Law Enforcement

By Dalton Webb

A homicide detective called with almost nothing. A body, a remote location, no leads. After one call to the Real-Time Crime Center, he had a suspect identified within minutes. That's not exceptional. That's what police technology does when it's working.

Written by the sergeant who built it from the ground up.

Dalton Webb spent eighteen years with the Fort Worth Police Department, founded one of the nation's first Real-Time Crime Centers, and helped establish the National Real-Time Crime Center Association. This is the book he wished had existed when he started.

It covers license plate readers, cameras, drones, gunshot detection, and AI, with real cases showing what each one actually changes in practice. It also covers what can go wrong and why the civil liberties questions aren't optional.

If your agency is deploying technology faster than your people can use it, this book is for you.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HF1CQ8B5
• ISBN13: 9798248404520
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"