PITTSBURGH — Officials with Pittsburgh’s Public Safety Department said Friday that 98 percent of the city’s surveillance cameras are working properly.
That is a significant improvement from September, when 60 percent of the cameras were working.
“There are outside issues that we don't always have control over, environmental issues, rainstorms, high winds,” said Linda Rosato-Barone, deputy director of operations.
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The cameras were criticized during the search for Dakota James, whose body was found in the river weeks after surveillance video showed him walking in downtown Pittsburgh the night he disappeared.
"It took a lot of time and effort and hours and hours and days of going through all the video we were able to pull," Rosato-Barone said.
She told Channel 11 News that the department has updated software and hardware, and hired a technology manager.
Daniel Shak said he plans to integrate the cameras with the city’s gunshot detection system, also known as ShotSpotter.
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