by TChris

Digital video cameras, a technology that has spawned a number of "real time" pornographic websites, may soon be coming to a police car near you. Police cars in Tyler, Texas are being equipped with "a digital video system designed to beam TV images of any police action in real-time from the police department's 60 cruisers over a wireless network back to headquarters."

The technology from International Business Machines Corp. will grab and store video on a hard drive in the police car, going back to retrieve data starting four minutes prior to the officer's hitting "record" or flipping on the overhead pursuit lights. This will help capture the probable cause for the police action, they said.

Just as importantly, the cameras will capture the absence of probable cause, as the "weaving" car is shown to be slowly drifting within its lane, or the "unsteady" driver is shown to be walking in a straight line without a problem.