13 Aug 2025

A community-supported video security initiative has transformed public safety in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The citizen-led collaboration demonstrates how open platform video technology can help revitalize struggling urban areas.

Faced with rising crime, open-air drug markets, and declining neighborhoods in the late 1990s, the citizens of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, took action. What began as a grassroots response evolved into one of the nation's most effective community-supported video security networks, powered by Milestone Systems’ XProtect open platform video management software (VMS).