Don’t look now, crook, perp or gangsta. You can be spotted. This instant. While you commit a crime.
The MPD’s Real Time Crime Center is a long room stuffed with technology: big-screen monitors, computer terminals, instant digital communications — all designed to increase the response and capability of the city’s police officers. A crime scene can be put under constant surveillance high above where officers sitting indoors direct uniformed police cruising the streets.

Don’t bother to look for the cameras. Just smile. While you can...