The Future Of Police Guns In NY?
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That’s the message from Sen. Eric Adams, D-Brooklyn, this week as he demonstrated a new device called the PistolCam – a 5-ounce camera he said would provide “a clearer picture of what officers encounter after they remove their guns from their holster.”
Adams, a former NYPD officer, wants officers to start using the guns in the wake of the Sean Bell shooting in New York City.
The camera would be used to clarify the sequence of events in a police-related shooting should the case go to court, Adams said.
Here’s Adams yesterday demonstrating the technology.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
