Orange County, New York, Sheriffs and also cops with the nearby Newburgh Police Department plan to start field-testing PISTOL CAMS -- cameras mounted on the barrels of their guns. When an officer pulls the gun from its holster, the camera starts videotaping. Police are hoping the cameras will help either prove that shooting perps was justified, or help discipline officers that shoot unlawfully.
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i doubt its orange county ca because newburgh is in new york but also in orange county (NY)
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Mike Elgan
I guess the next step is to hook the camera with an "intelligent" system that can objectively judge the danger of the situation (in pico-seconds) and pull the trigger...
Wouldn't surprise me if they are already working on it.
who makes the camera
is this going to be attached to the pistol at all times...i see its a clip on, or is the officer going to have to attach it before every shift...
It remains to be seen whether the powerful pro-police and conservative law and oeder groups will allow such "civilian: oversight of police use of deadly force.
Having known numerous cops and lawyers , and some judges and their interns over the years, I see a lot of trouble convincing more than a small plurality of legislators and , even voters, to allow this.
All the Right Wing will collect to back police officers even to the pint where it is obvious they are using defeat of such laws to allow them to continue to commit criminal behavior.
Most cops would have been criminals but they didn't catch them in time. As a result, we have the same people acting as police who the police arrest and incarcerate. I am not sanguine about the possibility that any police ever will caught doing anything they have to fear for.
Hey, Brutus...maybe your judge and lawyer friends can show you how to use spellcheck...
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