Dive Summary:

• After video surveillance outside a Boston, Massachusetts, Lord & Taylor store captured images of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, new light is being shed on the improving potential of retail store surveillance to assist in solving crimes.
• New improvements in digital imaging now allow images to be transported across thousands of miles to a central location with exceptional clarity. The footage is now being utoilzed to help solve crimes not directly associated with the store itself.
• “They have helped solved incidents at our stores and police look to us as a resource to investigate crimes that have nothing to do with 7-Eleven,” said Margaret Chabris, spokeswoman for 7-Eleven.

From the article:

“Now the ability to enhance the video, and as we have all seen by first images of the Boston bombing, those images were better and more clearer as the hours passed. So the first images of individual faces, that gets enhanced over a computer system,” he said.