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“The new “light-based intervention system” will be integrated into the police department’s existing 62-camera surveillance system, which is set up around East Orange and which officials largely credit with helping dramatically to cut crime. High-powered lights will be mounted on or adjacent to the cameras, which are remotely connected to a closed-circuit television system.

The footage feeds to a room at police headquarters that’s filled with screens and functions as an intelligence nerve center. Officers monitoring the real-time footage can maneuver both the light and camera in an effort to prevent and deter crime, Robinson said Tuesday as he stood with acting county Prosecutor Carolyn Murray, Sheriff Armando Fontoura and Chief of Detectives Anthony Ambrose.”