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NYPD Abandons Paper Memo Books for New iPhone App
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The suspect pulled out a bun.
All corporate computers have administrator backdoors incorporated into them. Features like remote access, encryption key escrow, data loss prevention that scans e-mails, archival systems that save content after you delete it... A lot required by law and industry regulations.
Technology does not turn good cops into bad cops. This seems like a good thing regardless of the yahoos running your town.
Who said it did? It does however make it easier for bad eggs to be bad eggs.
The app accepts voice dictated notes. It also has shortcuts for common entries, and a lot of information is pre-filled from dispatch.
The problem with today's cut and paste reporting is that important details get lost the further down the change you get.
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You know this because you have first-hand experience from your many years on the force?
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I don't see even the slightest connection between a police officer's use of an app to take notes and the need to search a suspect's phone for evidence.
If true, the rules of evidence in NY sound a bit screwy. Any notes that could be needed at trial should be booked into evidence as they need to be included in the chain, plus are subject to discovery.
Secondly, personal notes reduced into the report can be destroyed.
I guess you are a little. Not really a bad thing, it's just the fundamental way people are used to doing something doesn't adjust well to new ergonomics. Personally my handwriting is much slower and harder to read than typing on a phone.
Yes we are.
Genders can thumb type, on average, 38 words per minute. Much faster and neater than you can write. Notes work in heavy rain and are saved to the cloud to prevent loss. I really try to do everything via digital means, so many benefits. To this day I still mock applications in a simple kraft sketchbook with a drafting pencil.
i'm sure there is a joke about this and using your phone to ride the mta, but i haven't found it yet.
Entries will not be able to be faked
How is that? Does the app come with a polygraph-test attachment that officers are required to use when entering notes?
How is that? Does the app come with a polygraph-test attachment that officers are required to use when entering notes?
Also, with my handwriting, if the handwritten note is more than a day old I might not be able to decipher it.
If every entry is time and location stamped as it is being created and if correction is limited to addendums explaining the error then, yes, it will make it harder to fake entries.
I was involved in getting a group of clinicians converted from hand written to electronic progress notes. One of their main complaints was that it made it harder to change what they had written. They were never suppose to be making changes, but they didn’t like this system enforcing that rule.
cant wait for crime reports riddled with auto corrected sentences
This is not for crime reports this is for the notes they take during their shift, from which crime report my be written.
But unless it's backed up by some biometrics, there is no real way to know who used the app and when. Leave your phone unlocked on a bar counter and someone can edit you right into jail etc etc
All I'm saying is some wheels don't need reinventing. Sometimes just minor tweaks are enough.
