JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It's a new way to solve crimes and the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office wants your help.
On Thursday, Sheriff T.K. Waters unveiled JSO's Unsolved Crimes page, which is a new system that will incorporate the community into solving crimes.
Waters says the page comes from the realization that the community can assist in solving crimes. Now, members of the community can look at picture and video evidence that JSO has of unsolved crimes and submit information like a person's identity of suspected criminals.
Click here to visit the link to the Unsolved Crimes page.
The sheriff says that the new project will not replace Crime Stoppers, but will "greatly aid in their efforts to solve crimes and make Jacksonville a safer place to live."
Waters added that many times, evidence of crimes would sit in evidence lockers for years as crimes go unsolved, but this new program will keep information about those crimes, and that evidence, available to the public.
"I'm very pleased about this, community policing is a multipronged approach," said Waters. "We hear it all the time, but part of community policing is our community being involved in helping us identify individuals who do things."
Waters said in his press conference that information submitted through the Unsolved Crimes page can be given anonymously. He also said that public safety is a community-wide job and that the page will be another vital investigative tool.