The Shadow
CINCINNATI (AP) – Cincinnati police are trying out new cameras that officers wear like a cell phone ear piece.
The audio-video product comes from Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Taser International Inc., makers of the stun guns Cincinnati police use.
The video shot by the camera gives an officer’s-eye view and can be downloaded into a computer, with the camera connecting to a video screen.
It would cost $1.6 million to equip all Cincinnati’s 1,107 police officers, but Chief Tom Streicher (STRY’-kur) says the devices are part of the policing of the future. He hopes to land a grant to pay for them.
San Jose, Calif., police are among other forces testing Taser’s Axon cameras.
