Police: Improve technology first, then look to staffing

An alarming trend of rapidly increasing violent crimes compared with low police staffing has the Carroll County sheriff requesting computer systems in cruisers, so all seven police forces can track crime together.

“In the short term, additional coordination through combined police communications and patrol sharing” is the solution, said Lt. Phil Kasten, spokesman for the sheriff?s office. “The public would see real-time results very quickly.”