Live, Digital Video Heading to U.S. Police Cars

KingFishKingFish
edited April 2004 in Science & Tech
Drunk-and-disorderly calls and other police blotter entries are about to go live and digital in Tyler, Texas, thanks to a new system that puts digital video cameras on the city's police cars and links them through a wireless network.
The east Texas city next month will start to install a digital video system designed to beam TV images of any police action in real-time from the police department's 60 cruisers over a wireless network back to headquarters, IBM officials and Tyler police said on Tuesday.
Source: Yahoo/Reuters

Comments

  • KingFishKingFish
    edited April 2004
    Mark my words, this will not work. Officers will not stand for it, they will hate it and find all sorts of ways for their equipment to mysteriously not work. And what happens when the local media outlets find a way to tap into the wireless feeds (which they will eventually find out how because it will undoubtedly lead to some good uncut video footage that they will desire highly for their front page story)? Bad bad bad all the way. I'd like to talk to patrol officers, in confidence, in Tyler to get their non-politically correct views on this. My gut feeling says they'd hate it. I'll place a wager on the failure of this project.

    KingFish
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    hehe, Tyler... had family over there. Cool place, Bad Idea ;) I'll be with Kingfish in those thoughts.
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