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12-07-2015, 02:51 PM
http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/features/top-story/stories/chicagos-interim-chief-officers-dashcam-must-working-31172.shtml
Escalante told the Chicago Tribune that he's sent inspectors to do random checks of dashcams. He says that when they've found technical problems preventing them from working they are disciplining officers who did not report those problems to their supervisors.
Chicago PD, like most agencies probably has a good old boy in charge of the "police technology department", who probably specs out and buys substandard equipment, and then has it installed in a way that conflicts with the manufacturer's recommendations. To top it off, items like body mics have NiCad batteries and won't hold a charge after 3 months, but the department will view them as indefinite service life items. The daily routine is probably: check out a vehicle, do an in car camera inspection, the crap doesn't work, take it to the garage where the tech can't fix it, notify a supervisor and get told to take the vehicle out anyways, and then generate an incident report (or that supervisor notification never happened when SHTF)
Or show up to work, rather than spending the first three hours of shift screwing around with equipment that doesn't work, go out and work, that's what would have anyways. The reward for being given equipment that never worked and wearing a pair of big boy pants? Discipline.
Nothing is a big deal until it's full blown embarrassment.
Escalante told the Chicago Tribune that he's sent inspectors to do random checks of dashcams. He says that when they've found technical problems preventing them from working they are disciplining officers who did not report those problems to their supervisors.
Chicago PD, like most agencies probably has a good old boy in charge of the "police technology department", who probably specs out and buys substandard equipment, and then has it installed in a way that conflicts with the manufacturer's recommendations. To top it off, items like body mics have NiCad batteries and won't hold a charge after 3 months, but the department will view them as indefinite service life items. The daily routine is probably: check out a vehicle, do an in car camera inspection, the crap doesn't work, take it to the garage where the tech can't fix it, notify a supervisor and get told to take the vehicle out anyways, and then generate an incident report (or that supervisor notification never happened when SHTF)
Or show up to work, rather than spending the first three hours of shift screwing around with equipment that doesn't work, go out and work, that's what would have anyways. The reward for being given equipment that never worked and wearing a pair of big boy pants? Discipline.
Nothing is a big deal until it's full blown embarrassment.