It must be nerve-racking for any cop when they approach a suspect who has their hands in their pockets, not knowing if the encounter will be a routine one without incident or a hair-raising one that descends into a life-threatening shoot-out. If only the cop could somehow know in advance if the person they’re approaching is armed. Well, soon they should be able to.
A device being developed by the NYPD uses infrared rays to scan a suspect’s body to determine if they’re carrying a weapon. The implementation of the device would mean cops could do away with having to frisk a suspect, a risky action in itself due to the close proximity of the suspect.
NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly explained that the infrared rays scan a “form of radiation emitted from the body.” Because the infrared rays cannot penetrate metal, the cops would be able to see a digital outline of a weapon such as a gun or a knife, making it possible to pinpoint its precise location.
The scanner would be mounted on a police van and currently works at a range of about four feet, though engineers are hoping to extend that to around 80 feet.
The technology, the result of a collaboration between the NYPD and the US Department of Defense, has been in development for the last three years. There’s no official word on when it might be trialed, but it certainly sounds like a neat bit of tech that should serve to give cops the upper hand when it comes to approaching a suspect.
[Source: NY Post][Image: NYPD via Daily Mail]
Time to start wearing tinfoil underwear… So everyone will be in question. I hate things like this.
If you want to spend the money you can get infared scanners the telescopes that view objects out several hundred yards and miles if you don’t care a lot about detail.
For a piece that calls itself digital trends why do they hire writers who know zero about what they are writing on. All this is is a infared scanner that sees the infared heat from the person and puts it on a screen, something that has been around for twenty years. The objects on the person block some of the heat and that shows up as an image of the object against the person.
Waste of Tax Dollars DOD has monies to burn (along with the Constitution).
Pretty much… sad part is, I live in NY… I have a permit for full carry. Last I checked NYC was a part of NY. But my permit is not recognized in NYC… One of the only places I would want to carry out of fear for my life. Go figure.
Your still better off then we who have to live in Occupied Maryland .150 years of carpetbagging scum have destroyed “My Maryland”.Concealed carry permits have to got through the Governors Stooge @ the State Police,impossible to get :(
Should sue the state… Not for the lack of a permit, but for the process it’s self.
My Maryland is overrun with Federal Backed Carpetbaggers.Only way is to get rid of the overflow of scum from D.C.Potomac will have to run Red to fix the problem here.They put Obama back in the POTUS Position it will come true.
I guess the pollice commissioner has not heard of composite weapons?