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Get Out Your Batteries — And Get To Work
When I joined the San Diego PD in the late 1970s, high tech meant you had a fresh battery for your 6-year-old portable radio. Cars didn’t have computers and our Polaroid SX-70 “Instant” cameras still made some guys wonder “How do it do that?” In my early days, I had a manual portable typewriter and used to pull under a gas station awning, plop it on my trunk lid and bang out arrest reports. Now that was high tech. Simple times, yes — but not necessarily better times.
These days, most cops need to carry a separate go-bag just for extra batteries. We’re not saying that’s a bad thing, since the battery-powered goodies can make our lives safer, but the goodies need to actually work. As one of our staffers, John Connor said, “Nowadays we’ve got computers built to survive bombs, and ‘field electronics’ you can smack into left field with a Louisville Slugger without doing much more than dingin’ the finish — all devices even your 11 year old would have trouble destroying. Yeah, that 11 year old, the kid you once locked up naked in a padded room with a bowling ball, and he broke it and ate the pieces.”
Without further nonsense, here’s a compendium of just some of our favorite high-techy goodies of late.
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