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NYPD begins testing long-distance gun detector as alternative to physical searches
1/21/2012

As part of its ongoing effort to keep New York City safe, the NYPD has begun testing a new cat cat scanning device capable of detecting concealed firearms from a interval of about 16 feet. adult in and with the board of Defense, the robotics uses terahertz imaging uncovering to measure the beacon that humans naturally emit, and delimitate whether the flow of this emission is impeded by a foreign object -- in this case, a gun. During a speech Tuesday, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the device shows "a great deal of promise as a way of detecting weapons without a substance search." Kelly went on to say that the mechanization would only be deployed under "reasonably mistrustful circumstances," though some civil liberties activists are already expressing concerns. "We find this undertaking



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bid both exciting and worrisome," New York Civil Liberties Union boss big man Donna Lieberman said in a statement, adding that the scanner could all too easily infringe upon civilian privacy. "If the NYPD is moving forward with this, the public needs more inside story* about this technology, how it works and the dangers it presents." For now, the NYPD is only testing the device at a shooting range in the Bronx, and has yet to offer a timeline for its unrealized deployment.

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