Creating a force of more empathetic cops requires more than diversifying its composition.
Charles Stross has been predicting this for years: "Police in the UK are already experimenting with real time video recording of interactions with the public – I suspect that before long we're going to see cops required to run lifelogging apps constantly when on duty, with the output locked down as evidence".
In the pursuit of delivering 'fit for purpose' systems, the design of a CoP requires a holistic approach to understanding, engineering, managing and evolving the system and software needs and requirements.
Every piece of gear you want to cop requires Romney-money, and you're a pauper living off slave-wages in the most expensive city in the US.
The SMART-COP requires a chest X-ray, serum albumin levels, arterial pH and arterial partial pressure of oxygen measurements which may limit its efficacy in these scenarios.
Another important consideration, as identified by Fung-Kee-Fung [ 22– 28, 28] and supported in this study and an evaluation of the LIME Network [ 6], is that a CoP requires a range of supportive infrastructure tools for its success: project management, communication strategies and access to evidence.
- Las Vegas cops apparently require a SWAT team to serve an arrest warrant on a couple using their home as an illegal brothel, which was raided on Thursday.
The Brennan Center recently urged Elizabeth Warren, Chair of TARP's Congressional Oversight Panel (COP), to require more transparency with respect to political spending from bailout recipients so that we can keep track of what ailing institutions actually do with our money.
You read that right: Right now, local cops are required to use that free MRAP or grenade launcher.
This usually follows on the heels of the Miranda warnings cops are required to read suspects upon arrest that make clear, under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, an arrestee has the "right to remain silent," and, "anything [they] say, can and will be used against [them]" in court.
