Colorado Springs Police Department dispatchers recently received a service call about a woman who was allegedly threatening passersby with a knife, occasionally swinging and thrusting it toward people who came near her.

As officers prepared to respond to the call, they began to receive clarifying information: The woman was holding a stick, not a knife, and was arrested without further incident.

“That new information changed the level of the response and likely saved the woman from getting injured,” said CSPD spokeswoman Caitlin Ford.

The near-immediate relay of information came from the Real-Time Crime Center, a specialized CSPD unit that integrates an array of technologies, including body-worn camera footage, live drone feeds, law enforcement data, and streams from public and private c

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