JP
No, it’s not a camera that shoots bullets or a gun that shoots cameras, it’s a camera that mounts onto a gun that the Orange County Sheriff’s department is getting to test. Albeit no the most pleasing task carrying around a gun that will record every shot you make, it could expose how poor your accuracy is, or worse yet show the real serial killer you are.
I honestly don’t know what the purpose of this tech is on a day to day basis, unless they want to drive an office mad by making them watch their recent shooting victim slowly have the life leave their body. Other than that it will make YouTube a lot more interesting.
I reckon it could be useful in helping officers see who they were shooting at if the person gets away anyways, but other than that I don’t see a practical use for cameras on the end of a barrel. Although the saying does go, justice is served at the end of a barrel, so maybe they just want to catch that on video for evidence.
Police testing gun camera [via boingboing]
One Response to “Gun camera tests”
A Ibrahim October 31, 2007
This is to help protect citizens against police.
A gun camera does this by providing additional incentive for police to be responsible with their firearms, and providing evidence when the police do break their rules of engagement.
Its useful in cases like the recent one in Washington DC, where police shot and killed a 15 year old. The shooters claim he was threatening them with a gun. Witnesses say they never saw a weapon, and no weapon was ever recovered even after extensive searches by police.
If the suspect didn’t have a gun the gun camera should see that. This should make prosecution of the killers easier in a system that works hard to protect police.
Of course, its a double edged sword. … If the suspect had a gun the camera will see that too. In that light it would help protect police against false accusations.
Neutral