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Escondido, Calif. - For three years, a badge-size video camera known as Copcam has recorded everything from crime scene interviews to conversations with unwitting citizens at the Escondido Police Department, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. Now the department is testing the use of the camera, which attaches inconspicuously to a uniform shirt, in police patrols. The system sends pictures and sound through a wireless belt transmitter that emits a signal picked up by an antenna mounted on a police cruiser, the report says. The signal is then recorded by a VCR in the trunk. Copcam has helped ...

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