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Highway patrol find themselves in harm's way. >> come on, hurry! hurry, hurry! come on, come on, let's go! >> on an icy interstate, a car is crushed between the police vehicle and a careening tractor trailer. >> i thought for sure the driver of that car would have been seriously injured, if not killed. >> february 13th, 2007. officers douglas eagler and bill allen report for duty at the erlanger, kentucky police department. at 7:00 p.m., the night is already wet and icy. >> when we started our shift, we had to use our flashlights to knock the ice off our overhead light bar. so we knew we were ...

But traffic incidents can be as dangerous, if not more so. in our next story, officers on highway patrol find themselves in harm's way. >> come on, hurry! hurry, hurry! come on, come on, let's go! >> on an icy interstate, a car is crushed between the police vehicle and a careening tractor trailer. >> i thought for sure the driver of that car would have been seriously injured, if not killed. >> february 13th, 2007. officers douglas eagler and bill allen report for duty at the erlanger, kentucky police department. at 7:00 p.m., the night is already wet and icy. >> when we started our shift, we h...

>> come on, hurry! hurry, hurry! come on, come on, let's go! >> on an icy interstate, a car is crushed between the police vehicle and a careening tractor trailer. >> i thought for sure the driver of that car would have been seriously injured, if not killed. >> february 13th, 2007. officers douglas eagler and bill allen report for duty at the erlanger, kentucky police department. at 7:00 p.m., the night is already wet and icy. >> when we started our shift, we had to use our flashlights to knock the ice off our overhead light bar. so we knew we were in for probably a long night. >> bad weather f...

One possible explanation, smarter data driven police. here the lapd is embracing new technologies and big data analytics like never before, changing the way we fight crime. watch commander sergeant kennedy showed how big data analysis is changing the force. >> this is our license plate reader. we have three cameras attached to the light bar. >> license plate readers installed on cars have become commonplace. automatically scan every license plate they drive by. >> goes through the database to check for california vehicle system to see if it's stolen, a want on it for some reason. got an alert....

>> reporter: since the earl 1990s, crime rates have steadily declined across the country. one possible explanation -- smarter data-driven policing. here in los angeles, the lapd is embracing new technologies and big data analytics like never before, changing the way we fight crime. watch commander sergeant kennedy who shows how big data analysis is ing cha changing the force. >> our license plate reader. three cameras attached to the light bar. >> reporter: license plate readers installed on pa control cars, common place and automatically scan every license plate they drive by. >> goes through...