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When attached to an iPhone, MORIS can photograph a person's face and run the image through software that hunts for a match in a BI2-managed database of U.S. criminal records. Each unit costs about $3,000

Uhhhh ... exsqueeze me?
A Private Company will have this U.S. Criminal database? I don't think that's very smart.

Or exactly secure. Like from HACKING or illegal use and/or dissemination by some disgruntled queen with a boyfriend problem.

As to the $3K per iPhone app:

Beat Cops in Chicago have some of the crappiest equipment to work with in the USA. Patrol Cars that won't run. Batteries that are dead or die while on patrol (jumper cables are always be called for). In car computers and cameras that don't work. Bald tires, Flat tires and/or no Spare tires -- which they have to change themselves IN UNIFORM if they get a flat and lights and sirens that don't work. And best of all (/s) personal radios that don't work (kinda dangerous imho). Not to mention they're understaffed as to how many Beat Cops they should have on the streets during every shift.

So maybe it's just me but I *think* that $3k per app + iphone cost could be spent a bit #$&@ing WISER!

I listen to the CPD Radio Calls every day (like right now) through an on-line scanner. My MIL still lives in Chi and I worry about the old neighborhood and her safety as it's now a gang-banging Mexican Barrio thanks to that asshat Daley.
(I wouldn't be a Chi Cop for $250K per year -- and all tax free!)