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Cop Tech 2010

Posted January 18, 2007 2:24 PM

From PopSci.com:

Stink bombs, pain beams, spy drones—this is the future of law enforcement, brought to you by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. It's a sweltering Saturday afternoon in late August in East L.A. with Commander Sid Heal of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. Rather than peek through the window and expose his head, Heal points a boxy-looking device at the side of the house and flips a switch. A grainy image of a man inside appears on the device's screen. Heal and I watch him walk across the living room, enter a closet, and crouch down.

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Re: Cop Tech 2010

02/14/2007 6:39 AM

This sounds a lot like the TV programme, "Big Brother". Sadly, no-one has invented smellyvision yet!

In the UK there exists already 1 security camera for every 14 souls. No wonder the hoodies model the Grim Reaper's Autumn Collection...

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