TASR (up 9.4% Friday, 6 days after the Ferguson tragedy) makes wearable mini-cameras for cops.
Last year Rialto, CA, released the results of a 12-month study showing (TASR) cop-cams reduced “Use-of-Force Incidents by 59 Percent” and reduced complaints “by 87.5 Percent”
https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.hipcha ... 0Study.pdf
Elsewhere, NYC estimates the cost of camming all their officers to be about $32million, and it has not been approved yet. Further, a $5million pilot program has not yet been approved.
Pilots have reportedly been run in Scottsdale/Phoenix, AZ, and Greensboro, N.C., and Fort Worth, TX, and with the campus cops at San Jose State University, CA, and in small towns like Coeur d'Alene, ID, etc. Results have been positive: reportedly, cops originally grumbled about it until a few incidents happened where the videos exonerated officers in false-accusation cases. Now cops are increasingly warming up to the body cams. Budget issues are another story. Fresno and Houston are buyers of the cop-cams….. etc.
More TASR news: scroll down here:
https://finance.yahoo.com/q;_ylt=ApUfGJ ... ton&s=tasr
TASR competitor “Vievu” is privately held. I’m sure TASR has other competitors, but I haven’t found them yet.
The TASR 30 July spike was EPS; the gap and spike Friday was speculation that many municipalities will mandate Cop-Cams sooner rather than later.