Bullfeathers! It’s the taxpayer’s money.
Why don’t they just order $20 tracfones?
They may not play America’s funniest youtube, but the cops are supposed to be working, communicating, not playing videogames.
If the NYPD plans to spend a lot of money creating new apps, which will later have to be rewritten for Apple's iOS, then in may be cheaper in the long run for the NYPD to dump the Windows phones.