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Big Screen for NYPD

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the screen-envy dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "With millions of emergency calls every year, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) decided to invest in a new command and visualization center in order to keep up with the ocean of data it has to deal with. According to this article from BusinessWeek Online, the display system consists of hundreds of Mitsubishi digital light-processing (DLP) monitors covering three walls. The NYPD thinks it will help it to also manage the hundreds of thousands of annual arrest records and to further reduce crime in the city. You'll find more details and references in this overview, which includes impressive pictures of former visualization centers built by Imtech, which will integrate the NYPD one."

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  1. Supplier? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And they got all this from NEC for only $567 billion.

  2. How dare they? by tomstdenis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Spend money to improve public services!?!?! The animals!!

    This is why democracy doesn't work... ;-)

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