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An AP story about the Tyler, TX police department, which recently replaced its tape-based in-car video systems with searchable, metadata-friendly hard drive-based DV. Using the system's cache, the "pre-event" feature also captures the 60 seconds before the officer hits the 'record' button.
The system is from IBM and uses Coban Research & Technologies, manufacturer of the TopCamĆ visor-mounted camera.