Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich announced a $150,000 grant that will help the Chicago Police Department (CPD) expand a pilot program to install video cameras in police squad cars. The state grant, in addition to a matching $50,000 grant from the City of Chicago, will allow CPD to purchase and install 30 video cameras in squad cars. The video cameras are an important step to help to strengthen public safety and promote accountability and trust between law enforcement and the community it serves.
“Putting video cameras inside police cars protects drivers stopped by the police and it protects police officers. It’s good public policy and I’m glad we were able to help the City of Chicago do it,” said Governor Blagojevich.
A 2002 study by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) looked at the impact of police in-car camera systems on state police and highway agencies. The study reported an increase in officer safety, a reduction in the number of citizen complaints lodged against officers, officers conducting themselves more professionally, and an increase in the number of convictions and guilty pleas prior to going to trial.
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CES is a monster show. More than 140,000 people crammed into the Las Vegas Convention Center makes for interesting navigation. There were thousands of products, as well as a lot of me too stuff being shown. Some companies are combining functionality in an effort to differentiate from their competition. In an effort to enhance the value of their offerings, digital cameras and personal navigation systems are a few product categories that are doing just that.
While the digital camera market continues to roll out new models, the camera manufacturers are doing everything they can to differentiate their offerings. While some go the “more megapixel” route, others take different approaches to grabbing consumer attention. At CES 2006, Sanyo has forgone the megapixel madness race to come up with what might be the most interesting digital imaging device at this year’s show.
The company introduced a combination still image camera and HD video camera in a single palm sized device. The “digital media” camera , priced at $999 and called the Xacti HD1, features a 5.36 megapixel image sensor, 1280 x 780 resolution movies in 720p using MPEG 4 compression, and a 9mbps frame rate. It captures the media to SD memory cards, foregoing tape in what may be the future of digital video camcorders . It can shoot in six video resolutions, ranging from 320 x240 15fps video, up to 1280 x 720 30fps resolution. Still image capability ranges from 0.3megapixels at 640 x 480 up to 5 megapixels at 2592 x 1944 resolutions. This marks the first time a company is offering an HD capable device for less than $1000.
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In July, a number of windows were broken at the school. Last month a payment of $785 was received, an individual’s share of the damage which was incurred.
“This is a pretty expensive lesson for this young child,” said Grande Yellowhead Regional Division (GYRD) superintendent Dean Lindquist, during a report to the board of trustees at last Wednesday’s meeting in Edson.
He added video cameras are present in some of the division’s schools and that a review of the tape recently averted a theft of a jacket and backpack at Parkland Composite High School in Edson.
Cameras are also in place at Pine Grove Middle School in Edson.
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The big-screen TV technology, which creates pictures by heating gasses, isn’t going away anytime soon, he asserted during an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show here last week.
While analysts have predicted that plasma would begin to see its market share erode during the second half of the decade as LCD (liquid-crystal display) televisions get larger, plasmas will in fact become more popular as the average screen sizes increase, according to Yamada.
That’s because plasma provides a superior viewing experience over LCD in televisions with screens measuring 40 inches or more, Yamada said. Large plasmas also remain cheaper to make. Plus, making a plasma TV only requires two days, he said, while popping out a similar LCD takes seven days.
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