DVRs for Cop Cars

AEton writes "News.com is reporting that IBM is developing digital video recorders for cop cars. The systems involve a digital video camera and reusable hard drives which police officers will take with them on their shifts; centralized servers with up to 3.5 TB of storage will hold recordings. The cameras continuously record and cache old video in a "Tivo-like" fashion; tapes will start from three to five minutes before the cop turned on the recorder. Unbiased, high-quality recording could have a compelling social effect; and at the very least, we're headed for HDTV Cops."

Comments

Ridiculous invasion of privacy

[unterderbrucke]

I hope to God my local department doesn't take this up, if it does, I'll sue immediately.

Very simple.

[InThane]

When the cops are done beating the subject, they then wait five minutes, then hit the "record" button. It's a "feature" for the "discerning law enforcement professional." If it kept five hours of tape, then they could be held liable for all kinds of abuse...