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Posted by Fred G on Tue Aug 19 19:28:00 2014 WSJ ArticleIn the first year after the cameras' introduction, the use of force by officers declined 60%, and citizen complaints against police fell 88%. One problem with the cameras, however, has been cost. Fortunately, fierce competition between the two most prominent vendors of the devices, Vievu LLC and Taser International Inc., TASR +9.74% which makes the cameras used by Rialto police, has driven the price of individual cameras down to between $300 and $400. Unfortunately, one place where expenses can mount is in the storage and management of the data they generate. They've got money for heavy armored vehicles and other military gear and this would IMO pay for itself in legal cost savings. your pal, Fred |
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Posted by FtGreeneG on Tue Aug 19 20:24:18 2014, in response to What Happens When Police Officers Wear Body Cameras, posted by Fred G on Tue Aug 19 19:28:00 2014. No that is a great solution. |
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Posted by Dave on Tue Aug 19 21:14:55 2014, in response to What Happens When Police Officers Wear Body Cameras, posted by Fred G on Tue Aug 19 19:28:00 2014. Police departments received the vehicles and other military equipment for next to nothing or free, Fred.Free Free in Mass., too, except for shipping costs |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Aug 19 21:15:32 2014, in response to Re: What Happens When Police Officers Wear Body Cameras, posted by Dave on Tue Aug 19 21:14:55 2014. pwnt. |
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Posted by Dave on Tue Aug 19 21:16:55 2014, in response to Re: What Happens When Police Officers Wear Body Cameras, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Aug 19 21:15:32 2014. Nah, Fred just made a mistake. No big deal. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Aug 19 21:42:33 2014, in response to Re: What Happens When Police Officers Wear Body Cameras, posted by Dave on Tue Aug 19 21:14:55 2014. Not always ... I was talking to our sheriff last Saturday, an old buddy. The OFFICIAL SWATWAGENS (Humvees) cost as much as $360k. That's what he was trying to get money to buy until one of his buddies in Syracuse happened upon 16 MRAPs that the military was surplusing. He got HIS for $5k and dropped another ONEk in finishing off for a total cost to Albany county taxpayers of just 6k total.The DOWNSIDE of these toys though is their "gas" mileage. :( |
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Posted by bingbong on Tue Aug 19 21:55:44 2014, in response to What Happens When Police Officers Wear Body Cameras, posted by Fred G on Tue Aug 19 19:28:00 2014. Yep. |
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Posted by Dave on Tue Aug 19 22:43:02 2014, in response to Re: What Happens When Police Officers Wear Body Cameras, posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Aug 19 21:42:33 2014. That's what "next to nothing" refers to. Five grand for a $360k Humvee? They got it for next to nothing. |
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Posted by Dave on Tue Aug 19 22:43:33 2014, in response to Re: What Happens When Police Officers Wear Body Cameras, posted by bingbong on Tue Aug 19 21:55:44 2014. Nope. WABB. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Aug 19 22:58:55 2014, in response to Re: What Happens When Police Officers Wear Body Cameras, posted by Dave on Tue Aug 19 22:43:02 2014. Ummmmm ... it isn't a Humvee, it's an MRAP ... I posted a picture of it late Saturday night. But I fed it from my phone directly to tinypic and don't have time left to go do it again and threw away the URL I got. It's here though, I promise. Gotta get up at oh-dark hundred - have to work United States time this week for customers instead of my usual Middle East/western Asia schedule.If you can find it, feel free to copypasta again. :) |
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Posted by Dave on Tue Aug 19 23:07:21 2014, in response to Re: What Happens When Police Officers Wear Body Cameras, posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Aug 19 22:58:55 2014. You posted Humvee. I thought that was kind of expensive for a Humvee. MRAP makes more sense."The OFFICIAL SWATWAGENS (Humvees) cost as much as $360k." |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Aug 19 23:20:44 2014, in response to Re: What Happens When Police Officers Wear Body Cameras, posted by Dave on Tue Aug 19 23:07:21 2014. That was NOT a Humvee that I posted ... go look. I'd go find it but I *seriously* gotta get to bed. Early day tomorrow, Selkirk does America ... a Mike Judge picture. :)And no, a fully equipped Humvee police vee-hickle costs $360,000 with all the trimmings according to my buddy. He got a quote. |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Aug 20 03:20:31 2014, in response to Re: What Happens When Police Officers Wear Body Cameras, posted by Dave on Tue Aug 19 21:14:55 2014. Okay point taken, my error. I still think these things would pay for themselves in saved administrative and court costs as they're a reliable eyewitness.Your pal, Fred |
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Posted by bingbong on Wed Aug 20 07:50:24 2014, in response to Re: What Happens When Police Officers Wear Body Cameras, posted by Dave on Tue Aug 19 22:43:02 2014. Wrong. They got the MRAP FOR $5K. The Humvees still ran $360K. The MRAP satisified the Homeland Security requirement for backup materiel held locally should a Fed agency want it. The thing sits in the garage unless they show it somewhere or have the occasional GCM to impress it gets gallons to the mile, costs too much to use. Definitely a vehicle for an oil company army. Useless otherwise. |
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