NYC 911 to Accept Cellphone Pics and Video 251
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?
Camera Fun (Score:2, Funny)
911 Abuse: The Next Generation (Score:5, Funny)
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Planning on doing what where? (Score:2, Funny)
... and a spell checker to provide correct spelling for Slashdot posts.
Re:Well that's shweet and all (Score:3, Funny)
1 chemical supply store
2 a hardware store
3 a gun store
4 "with" a person of interest
So on the basis of this "evidence" during a sweep you get given a ticket to Gitmo as being part of a terrorist plot"
Well, that's an awful lot of coincidences isn't it? That's why I spread out my suspicious activities over months, if not years.
Re:Well that's shweet and all (Score:5, Funny)
Hey guess what, the people posting comments on this site aren't all the same person. I mean wow, the parent was like "blah blah blah" and then you were like "blah blah blah isn't a good argument!" What hypocrisy! This site just disagreed with itself!!11
Re:Ummm... what? (Score:2, Funny)
I've been robbed twice and hit by a drunk driver. In all three cases I called police, and the disbatcher explained to me that they no longer respond to calls about those sorts of crime.