Metro Council 2025: Fusus and MNPD Surveillance Explainer, Pt. 1: What Is It?

At the upcoming 3/4/2025 council meeting, Nashville once again takes up a "Community Safety Camera Network" based on Fusus technology. In Part 1, I look at where Fusus came from and what it does.

📷 A brochure for Axon Fusus, the “Real-Time Crime Center Platform.” (Photo © Axon).

The literary and cinematic imagination is rich with surveillance imagery. In George Lucas's film THX 1138, an underground slave class reports to video confessionals and imbibes mandatory medication. The film Gattaca portrays a massive corporation guiding a system of gene…