“When people know they are being recorded, that tends to bring the drama down very quickly,” he said.
State wiretap law still restricts officers from recording oral communications inside an individual’s residence. The TASER AXON flex cameras currently deployed record audio and video.
Lieutenant Clarence Trapp told the New Pittsburgh Courier in October that even though the price point for each AXON flex unit is now “under a grand,” and it meets all their technical requirements, he planned on testing it against units from other companies after the first of the year, before a slower planned deployment to patrol officers at all the zone stations.
“Since Ferguson, companies are springing up rapidly,” he said. “So we have to wade through and see which ones are legit and which are fly-by-night. But these—even during high speed chases with a lot of head movement, the video is still crisp.”
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