ConnectAtlanta / Video Integration Center
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Officers can pull up a private doorbell camera before they even reach the scene — and Atlanta now has more cameras per resident than any big US city, with no independent audit of whether it cuts crime.
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Atlanta Police Department's real-time crime center — an outgrowth of the Atlanta Police Foundation's 2007 Operation Shield camera network — has run on Fusus software (Axon) since 2021, stitching APD's own cameras together with tens of thousands of privately registered business and doorbell cameras into one searchable live map officers can pull up before they arrive at a scene. The Atlanta Police Foundation paid for the software at no cost to the city; by 2025 roughly 17,000 registered cameras required a police request while about 29,000 integrated cameras gave direct feed access. A 2024 Comparitech survey found Atlanta has the highest camera density of any large US city (about 124 per 1,000 residents), and the ACLU of Georgia has campaigned for oversight legislation, warning the network enables 'near-constant, suspicion-less monitoring' with no independent audit of its actual effect on crime.
📊 Impact
Comparitech's 2024 citywide camera-density survey found Atlanta has about 124 cameras per 1,000 residents — the highest of any large US city — driven largely by ConnectAtlanta's private-camera integration; no independent study has evaluated the network's effect on crime clearance or prevention.
🎓 Lesson
A camera network's growth is easy to measure and its crime impact is not — Atlanta can quantify its surveillance footprint precisely while having no independent evaluation of what that footprint actually does to crime.
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Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2021. 3 of 4 sources carry a publication date, from 26 January 2022 to 19 June 2026.
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- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution · pressAJC, "'A game-changer': Atlanta police hope new camera network will help solve, reduce crime"
- Electronic Frontier Foundation · ngoEFF, "Neighborhood Watch Out: Cops Are Using Fusus..."
- SaportaReport · pressSaportaReport, "Atlanta and AI-powered surveillance"
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Comparitech's 2024 citywide camera-density survey found Atlanta has about 124 cameras per 1,000 residents — the highest of any large US city
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- Atlanta Police Department; software funded and provided by the Atlanta Police Foundation
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- city-government
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- Atlanta Police Foundation (private nonprofit); free to the city
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AJC, "'A game-changer': Atlanta police hope new camera network will help solve, reduce crime"
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- Name not classified · ajc.com
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- 2022-01-26
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- 2026-08-02
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Fusus partnership start (fall 2021), operator, funding by Atlanta Police Foundation, camera counts as of 2021-2022
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SaportaReport, "Atlanta and AI-powered surveillance"
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- Name not classified · saportareport.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-06-19
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- 2026-08-02
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2025 camera counts (~17,000 registered / ~29,000 integrated), cites Comparitech 2024 density figure, ACLU of Georgia criticism
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ACLU of Georgia, "Protect our Privacy" campaign
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- 2026-08-02
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civil-liberties criticism, call for oversight legislation
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EFF, "Neighborhood Watch Out: Cops Are Using Fusus..."
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- 2023-05-11
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national context on Fusus real-time crime networks
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “ConnectAtlanta / Video Integration Center” — Atlanta, United States. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/atlanta-connect-camera-network/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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