Posted on 10/22/2018 6:20:27 AM PDT by blueplum
The New York Police Department is removing nearly 3,000 body cameras from use after one of the devices worn by a Staten Island officer exploded into flames, police officials said on Sunday. The recall of the Vievu-brand LE-5 cameras could delay the department’s plan to outfit all 23,000 patrol officers with body cameras by December, and adds another twist to the complicated history surrounding the mechanisms...
The police said other camera models, including the LE-4, are not affected by the order.
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Crappy Chinese batteries.
It caught H. Clinton in it’s viewfinder?
Now they can start with false allegations of cops. No body cameras.
They ought to consider the Axon.
https://www.axon.com/products/body-3
It’s also approved for FirstNet, and NY/ NYPD is enrolled in FirstNet.
This sounds like a Soros dealio.
The police do not like the new self-warming feature of the camera for Winter use?
not to worry. I think the article says 19,000 LE-4s are still in use. It’s just the LE-5s that are turning into personal fireplaces
Let the un-monitored beatings begin again!
Certainly the Police Union and certain roid-raging officers are cheering this unforseen technological glitch.
My old cell phone did that too. It’s called a “Halt, Melt and Catch Fire” error.
“That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.”
I must live a sheltered life, but I will say, having lived in not so good neighborhoods more often than not when younger, I have never seen a cop ‘beat’ anyone. Be a jerk, sure. Manhandled, ok. But not beat. More often than not, they were bending over backwards to be nice to out of control wackadoodles a normal person would have knocked flat in the first 10 seconds and been done with it. There are over a million cops in the USA, maybe a few thousand bad apples over a few decades, so percentage wise, there’s less beater blood in the cop force than indian blood in Fakahauntingus.
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