Las Vegas Metro's Push to Be the Most High-Tech Police Force in America

Las Vegas Metro PD wants to be the most technologically advanced police force in the country, and they're well on their way to doing that. Drones filling the sky, Flock license plate readers, a fleet of police Cybertrucks, ShotSpotter technology and a counterterrorism surveillance program called the Meridian Project are all part of Metro's growing tech arsenal. But how much do Las Vegas residents actually know about what's being deployed in their neighborhoods, and how much input have they had? Host Jesse Merrick sits down with Nevada Independent reporter Oona Milliken, who has been digging into Metro's surveillance expansion, to break down what the technology actually does, why so much of it came through private donations rather than public funding and whether the tradeoffs in privacy and civil liberties are actually worth it.

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