A whole raft of new technologies are making their way into police departments around the nation. If there wasn’t much profit in being a criminal before, there will be notably less by 2025, when all of these new technologies are fully deployed. So what does the police force of the future look like?

Read on to see some of the new tools being tried out right now, in cities around the nation.

Body Cams
These will take two forms, primarily. First, Police departments around the country are running pilot programs with Google Glass and related gadgets and second, they’re looking at tiny “lapel cams” that would allow for safer pursuit of fleeing suspects.

Other advantages of such body cameras include:
• Increased accountability for officers and departments;
• Providing real-time video evidence of interactions with the public
• Such devices could allow officers and emergency responders to access live information feeds as they engage or pursue suspects on city streets or inside buildings

“The camera within the device could potentially capture the facial images of persons of interest or suspects and run these images against databases of known felons, repeat offenders, wanted or missing persons,” Daly told FoxNews.com.

Data Mining and Automation
One key advantage law enforcement will see from these various technologies is that it will enhance their ability to respond to emergencies with decreasing resources, according to “American Policing in 2022: Essays on the Future of a Profession,” a Department of Justice collection of ideas on the next decade of law enforcement. […]