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NYC 911 to Accept Cellphone Pics and Video

Posted by Zonk on from the looking-through-the-phone dept.

SpaceAdmiral writes "New York City is developing a plan to allow images to be sent to 911 emergency operators from cellphones. This will likely give emergency operators better information to pass along to responders. They're also planning on implementing a program of street-corner video cameras, as seen in the city of London. According to John A. Feinblatt, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's criminal justice coordinator: 'The more information that the police have and the more quickly that they get it, the more likely that they are going to fight a crime.'" How practical do you think it is to expand this sort of project to cities across the country? Moreover, is it worth the expense?

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  1. Re:Planning on doing what where? by alshithead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "From the posting: They're also planning on implimenting a program of streetcorner video cameras, ... and a spell checker to provide correct spelling for Slashdot posts."

    You beat me to it...I just got home from being out and about all day. I check out Slashdot to see what's going on and damn if "implimenting" didn't just reach out and grab me. Folks, can we take a little time and effort to try and appear educated and intelligent? I'm not talking about the occasional typo, slang, or grammatical errors in posts. I'm talking about the actual fucking story looking like it was written by a functional illiterate! I really don't get it. My Firefox has spell check built in. If your browser doesn't, you can copy and paste using you favorite word processor. Can you feel my exasperation? Go ahead and mod me as flamebait, troll, or off topic if you wish but, the devil is often in the details. Just imagine what this misspelling looks like to a first time visitor to Slashdot. "Nothing to see here, move on." /rant off

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  2. Re:Planning on doing what where? by alshithead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, and ironically...some of us should use preview more and reread what we just wrote.

    "you can copy and paste using you favorite word processor"

    Yes, it should be "your". That's karma rearing it's ugly head for my rant. :P

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  3. Re:Camera Fun by Ruud+Althuizen · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Do I feel a:
    • Goatse
    • tubgirl
    • etc
    urge coming up?
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