Some counties get botanical gardens. Some get aquatic centers with water slides named after local mayors. Baldwin County, Georgia, got a $650,000 real-time crime center with facial recognition, license plate readers, and enough data-wrangling software to make your old Facebook privacy settings weep in the corner.
It’s a place where 911 calls, camera feeds, and digital breadcrumbs all meet in a gleaming new facility that promises to fight crime, solve cases, and, one assumes, know what kind of car you were driving when you rolled that stop sign on Liberty Street.
