It hasn't been a great couple of weeks for the NYPD, at least when you talk about embarrassing and incriminating videos about New York's "Finest" posted to YouTube. After all, we had the smash hit Critical Mass Cyclist Assaulted by NYPD (1,344,876 views at the time of this writing) uploaded to YouTube.Noting the amount of traffic YouTube received, and noting it might be better to have such videos sent directly to the NYPD, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said on Thursday that soon New Yorkers will be able to help the police by uploading video or photo evidence directly to the NYPD,
Seriously though, other police organizations have, in the past, set up ways for photo evidence to be sent directly to them, but I haven't heard of such a process being defined for video evidence before. Kelly said:
"We're putting that technology in place to enable us to do that. It's a fact of life. Everybody has a camera in their telephones. When people can record an event taking place that helps us during an investigation, it's helpful."
Kelly added that the service would be available soon.Oh, and I'd be remiss if I didn't give you the chance to watch the video of the cyclist incident. Watch carefully at the 40 second mark, though. It looks like a woman rides over, grabs the bicycle of the victim, and rides off with it (see image above).
If that's truly the case, what have we come to?
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