{"id":2218,"date":"2011-04-04T10:55:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T14:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2011-04-04T10:55:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T14:55:59","slug":"police-in-oklahoma-to-begin-using-wearable-video-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/04\/police-in-oklahoma-to-begin-using-wearable-video-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Police In Oklahoma To Begin Using Wearable Video Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have long used video cameras in their patrol cars. \u00a0But now police in Owasso, Oklahoma are taking it a step further with wearable video cameras. \u00a0The cameras are attached to an officers chest and automatically begin recording both video and audio whenever the officer flips open a cover over the camera&#8217;s lens.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to capture video evidence of everything that happens before, during and after a call&#8230;as around 90% of activity during a call happens outside of a car camera&#8217;s view. \u00a0And to help the police department avoid potential lawsuits, where in Owasso, about one in every 1,700 arrests results in a civil lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The cameras themselves cost around $900 each and are made by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vievu.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vievu<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0They simply clip on and are ready to go, recording up to 4 hours of footage at 640&#215;480 to an internal memory card. \u00a0Although these cameras are marketed toward law enforcement agencies, they are available to the public too.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vievu.com\/videos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a link showing a dozen different videos of the camera being used<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have long used video cameras in their patrol cars. \u00a0But now police in Owasso, Oklahoma are taking it a step further with wearable video cameras. \u00a0The cameras are attached to an officers chest and automatically begin recording both video and audio whenever the officer flips open a cover over the camera&#8217;s lens. The idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[810,809],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}