Law Enforcement

Franklin's jail, built for a smaller county, is showing its age as Johnson County's population has grown by 43% since 2000.

The regional complex would consolidate police, fire, 911 dispatch, and emergency management now scattered across multiple aging facilities.

The renovation comes as the suburban Indianapolis county's population has grown 21% since 2000, putting pressure on a jail designed for a smaller, different era.

The southwestern Indiana county is overhauling its dispatch center's emergency power system amid rising outages and a nationwide reckoning with aging public safety infrastructure.

Federal program created after 9/11 now fields thousands more applications than it can fund as attacks on synagogues, mosques, and community centers surge.

Cincinnati replaced its police helicopters with a 22-drone fleet that costs less over nine years than buying and operating a single helicopter for two. The rest of the country is doing the math.