Word: camera
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Fennelly refused to disclose the final cost ofthe surveillance operation. But other policeofficials and security equipment experts estimatedthat the camera equipment and overtime pay for the24-hour detail totaled at least...
Later in the week, BGLAD organizers willpresent a film festival called "Reel Queer." Thefestival will include the Boston premieres ofmovies from the 1991 New York Gay and LesbianExperimental Film Festival as well as rarely seenfilms such as "Coal Miner's Granddaughter," shotwith a toy video camera...
...presence of a TV camera -- one in plain sight, that is -- can help keep police on their best behavior. And it inhibits suspects from getting violent, some officers contend. TV cameras can also help prosecutors later on. David Magnusson, a former street cop for Greater Miami's Metro-Dade police who now works in the department's press office, recalls a man arrested for dope possession who stuffed his stash in his mouth and swallowed it. Knowing his actions had been taped by a Cops crew, however, he pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence...
...there is considerable resistance to the TV onslaught in some big-city police departments. The Chicago police department does not allow camera crews - in squad cars, and San Diego's police have refused cooperation with most of the TV cop shows. A reporter in the patrol car is not only an inconvenience, says San Diego captain Dave Warden, but can "prevent supervisors from doing their work -- whether counseling an officer or reprimanding him." The Los Angeles police department does permit ride-alongs -- an average of 10 a week, ranging from journalists to screenwriters and community activists -- but only with reluctance...
...also uses the camera as an implement to trace the outlines of certain features. For example, the first time we encounter Martin's mother, we see the child Martin's hands outlining and feeling her lips, neck and chest; she reprimands him with the statement, "Fingers aren't the same as eyes...