Posted on 06/05/2009 6:20:44 PM PDT by greatdefender
NEW YORK – The New York Police Department is looking into adapting futuristic technology that would allow officers' guns to recognize one another in an effort to avoid the type of friendly fire that left a cop dead last week.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly asked his inner circle to compile a list of department initiatives that would help prevent confrontations between fellow officers. Omar J. Edwards, 25, was killed May 28 as he chased a burglary suspect. Edwards had just left work and was dressed in street clothes and had his service weapon drawn. Three plainclothes detectives came upon the scene. When Edwards turned after Officer Andrew Dunton yelled for him to stop, he was shot, according to the NYPD.
On Friday, Paul Browne, the deputy commissioner for public information at the NYPD, said the department is talking with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory about the possibility of tailoring technology for the department.
One idea involves the use of radio frequency tags that would allow officers to pinpoint where other cops are in the city, Browne said. Another involves tags that would work gun-to-gun and use an infrared sensor: When a weapon is pulled from an officer's holster it would trigger a signal that would be sent to the gun of a nearby officer. The signal may be seen or heard.
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Not that this could ever fall into the hands of the bad guys... LOL.
What did one gun say to the other gun.....? Sup?
Lost or stolen guns will be in demand by the bad guy. You could code this hypothetical signal uniquely to each gun and shut the signal down when the gun was reported stolen.
But two officers draw on a guy with a gun - and the “friendly” signal goes off as they signal each other - do they hesitate?
Or Edwards’s gun would have said “friendly” and the officers would have known friendly was the partner next to them and not realized it was Edwards’s signal.
I can hear them now....
Look out mo fo. I blow you (blankity blankity) head right off your (mudder frogging) shoulders. Wo is you bro!
I can't wait until the next gang war and an NYPD dispatcher thinks Precinct A and Precinct B are having a civil war.
I’m sure automatic communication between hand-held loaded firearms won’t have any downside. /sarc
imagne that...... An officer answer the call from his firearm and people would panic because the officer’s weapon was drawn.
Officer: “Double Whammy!”
Gun: “Double Whammy”
thank you... a crooks wetdream
This works great when the cops know the guns are missing, which isn’t the case when they’re left in the men’s room.
>>>One idea involves the use of radio frequency tags that would allow officers to pinpoint where other cops are in the city, Browne said.
Not that this could ever fall into the hands of the bad guys... LOL.
IFF doesn’t seem to bother the Air Force. They appear to think it’s a pretty good idea. LOL?
Hell yes, LOL, if you think IFF on warplanes is equivalent to RFIDs on cops guns! Do cops have personal radars? Do they have sigint to detect if they've been pinged? Do they have fire-and-forget missiles? Do they have military levels of battle orders? Do they have the ability to turn the RFIDs off?
I could go on all day! What a ridiculous comparison!
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