A lawmaker in Washington DC has intro’d a bill to the city council that would require all police service pistols to have mini cameras attached to the barrel, which would start rolling as soon as the gun is pulled out of the holster. The tech is already being tested in Orange County, NY. Ostensibly, it’s to prevent bad shootings and prove officers acted in good faith, but really I can only think of how awesome an FPS cam would make Cops, like that one scene in the Doom movie, except with intoxicated perps instead of demons from Hell. If it works in DC, I could see this spreading to other police departments pretty quickly as a way to quell lawsuits and such. [NBC4 via The Register via CG]
Alex
May 9, 2008 at 2:27 PM
WOOt! And the guns of all real hardcore cops could have as their last frame a closeup of the side of the owners head, or the inside of their mouth.
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June 12, 2008 at 1:53 PM
i am fan of aus cop plz give a chance to job in cops i love the cops
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August 4, 2008 at 1:04 AM
Too bad this will never happen in the US. How would all those Nazi cops get away with murder of innocent Americans or immigrants. They surely don’t want this camera recording their every move when out of the holster.
Report PermalinkThis is an excellent example of the potential for technology to restore our rights and to fight back against the innumerable psychos walking around our country with licenses to murder and to brutalize.