NYPD Ends Test of Robot Police Dog
Police officials said the robot's purpose was to take police officers out of harm's way and that it was actually cheaper than other robots already in use.
April 29, 2021
Police officials said the robot's purpose was to take police officers out of harm's way and that it was actually cheaper than other robots already in use.
April 29, 2021
State Sen. Brad Hoylman, who represents the district where this incident took place, thought deploying the $74,000 robot dog anywhere undermined police-community relations, but especially in a public housing complex where residents might already mistrust the police.
April 14, 2021
The deployment, which was part of a slate of police reform laws passed last June, is expected to reach the ranks across the state by the fall.
April 2, 2021
An undisclosed number of troopers with the New York State Police will soon be wearing body cameras in a recently announced pilot program to investigate their effectiveness and their impact.
February 27, 2020
“The best way to fight hate is to shine a light on it,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said at a press conference Monday.
January 8, 2020
Rekor Systems Inc. announced that the Rotterdam (NY) Police Department has entered into a subscription agreement to use the company's Watchman vehicle recognition software on existing traffic and surveillance cameras.
September 12, 2019
The NYPD is testing a virtual reality scenario-based training system. About 200 officers participated in the training program, which was conducted earlier this month at a state-of-the-art facility in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
April 30, 2019
Patternizr is an algorithmic machine-learning software that sifts through police data to find patterns and connect similar crimes. It has been in use by NYPD since December 2016, but its existence was first disclosed by the department this month.
April 24, 2019
NYPD Emergency Service Unit cops were called in to talk to the man, while officers from the department’s Technical Assistance Response Unit used an untethered drone to watch from a window.
March 20, 2019
The department sent a cease-and-desist letter over the weekend demanding Google disable the crowd-sourced app’s function that allows motorists to pinpoint police whereabouts.
February 6, 2019
Officers with the New York Police Department now have a better way to communicate with subjects who are deaf or hard of hearing with a teleconferencing system that is similar to Skype, allowing the hearing impaired person to speak in sign language and the officer to communicate verbally with a translation conducted by interpreters employed by the city.
February 1, 2019
"Drone technology will give our cops and their incident commanders an opportunity to see what they're getting into before they go into harm's way," NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan said Tuesday. "This can now get us a lot closer into areas that a helicopter wouldn't be able to get into.”
December 5, 2018
“The incident revealed a potential for the battery inside the camera to ignite,” the NYPD said in a statement. “The cause and scope of the defect are currently being investigated.”
October 24, 2018
The Buffalo, NY officer returned to work late Wednesday after serving a 22-day unpaid suspension and agreeing to obey the department's social media policy, which he violated by appearing in a police uniform and portraying himself in off-the-wall situations that police brass felt demeaned the force.
March 21, 2016
A three-year veteran of the Buffalo (NY) Police Department assigned to the Housing Unit was suspended without pay Monday afternoon for violating the department's social media policy.
February 23, 2016
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