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There is a much easier answer. Take the billions of dollars the pentagon and homeland security is giving to these departments and instead of buying useless arm
by ck2 12y ago
There is a much easier answer.
Take the billions of dollars the pentagon and homeland security is giving to these departments and instead of buying useless armored tanks and other nonsense, buy a wearable camera for every cop in the country.
There are 700,000 cops in the usa. Bulk purchase at $100 each is $70 Million. Throw in $30 million for tech support, downloading, etc. and you are at a "mere" $100 million. Since it is a government program, budget it at five times the cost and you are still "only" at half a billion, which is a fraction of the pentagon's program.
Fund it now, make it a law they have to wear it at all times while on duty or instant termination.
"suspects" will behave better, cops will behave better, it is already proven.
- nmrm2 12y agoNot that I disagree with your proposal at all, but you're probably significantly under-estimating the cost. The cameras need to be "designed for LEO!", so double their price. You also need very expensive retention technology and obscene amounts of backup space (even though the video always disappears whenever someone asks for it anyways)
- discardorama 12y agoThey are not buying the equipment; it is being gifted to them by the DoD. It's like someone walked up to you and said: would you like a free hammer? And you think to yourself, I don't need one but hey! free hammer! So you take it. Then suddenly every problem starts looking like a nail...
- ck2 12y agoYou should correct that it is being gifted by every taxpayer in the USA. DoD doesn't grow that equipment on magical trees in their backyard. So ironically some peaceful protesters, innocent bystanders and suburban homeowners are paying to have themselves teargased and worse.