Mar 12
New Yorkers were shocked on Wednesday morning
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Feb 06
According to a report by VentureBeat, The New York City Police Department is currently investigating how useful Google Glass could be in the fight against the city’s crime.
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Dec 27
Criminals, terrorists and suspicious-looking minorities beware: the New York Police Department is coming after you with the cop car of the future! The NYPD is testing a prototype cruiser with the latest advances in public surveillance, er, public safety.
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Dec 09
The NYPD isn’t known for its, uh, transparency. In fact, it’s mostly known for aggressively withholding information. So this new, interactive crime map released by the NYPD this weekend is a welcome surprise.
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Sep 21
NYPD has a message for you iPhone and iPad folks pic.twitter.com/cxzHLpgh60
— Jim Rosenberg (@jimrosenberg) September 21, 2013
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Aug 13
Yesterday, a federal judge ruled that New York City’s "stop-and-frisk" violated the rights of minorities in the city. In her recommendations accompanying the ruling, Judge Shira Scheindlin ordered the NYPD to test wearable cameras in five precincts where the controversial search tactic was used. But a lot of people are wondering what effect if any the cameras will have on police behavior.
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Apr 25
A subway-borne chemical attack is one of those theoreticals that require the willful ignorance of regular passengers—for most of us, it’s just better not to think about it. Not so for the NYPD, which yesterday announced a plan to test how a chemical or radiological attack would spread through the city’s 200-odd miles of subway, by pumping an invisible gas through the system this summer. More »
Apr 12
Thanks to an NYPD pilot program, over 400 officers have special Android smartphones that allow them to pull up suspect data on the spot, according to the New York Times. Patrol car-mounted laptops can be slow and cumbersome, while the call-disabled handsets (which look like Samsung’s Rugby Smart in the image above) let patrolmen see a suspect’s criminal record on the spot and even know if a felon hides drugs “in his left sock,” according to one cop. The custom app can also dig up info like open warrants, arrest and incident records, orders of protection and photos of everyone who’s been arrested in a particular building, for instance. They can even drum up the location of every video camera pointed at a particular spot — so, watch where you spit that gum, scofflaw.
[Image credit: New York Times]
Filed under: Cellphones
Via: The Verge
Source: NY Times
Feb 22
The number of gadget-related thefts in major metropolitan areas has only continued to rise, and the number of resolved cases simply can’t keep up. However, it would appear that Apple is now working directly with the NYPD to help return iThings into the hands of their rightful owners.
The NYPD has formed an official team which will work directly with Apple to track down stolen iThings, mostly iPhones and iPads.
Devices are tracked in the same way they always have been: with the help of tracking number (International Mobile Station Equipment Identity). Once the tracking number has been relayed to Apple, Cupertino can locate the device and send police to retrieve it.
According to NYPD spokesman Paul Browne, the team hopes to uncover a pattern that will lead police closer to the more organized side of the thefts, involving resale on the black market to unsuspecting buyers.
In New York, 74 percent of all stolen Apple products remain within the five boroughs. But some venture quite a ways away — the NY Post reports that Apple helped police track down an iPad that had ended up in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
According to the Huffington Post, the NYPD reported that over 40 percent of all robberies in the city now involve cell phones.
The wireless industry has been working hard to integrate with law enforcement on a number of levels. Along with Apple’s direct work with the NYPD, the wireless industry as a whole has been working to form a database of tracking numbers to help keep theft down, or at the very least, return as many stolen devices as possible. However, that won’t launch until November of 2013.
Additionally, carriers are working with officials to developer a next-generation 911 system that includes texting, MMS, as well as calls.
Feb 22
It should come as no surprise that iPhones and iPads are prime targets for theft, but it’s gotten really bad in New York City. It’s so bad that, according to the New York Post, the NYPD is setting up a unit specifically to handle iDevice theft and work with Apple to track down the thieves. More »
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