What Are the Benefits and Challenges of Police Using Night Vision?

By Kyle Lynch

Though the U.S. military has been using night vision for decades, American law enforcement has only begun to break the surface of such gear for operations. One of the more recent, notable uses of cutting-edge technology used by LEOs was in 2013 when Massachusetts State Police used a FLIR camera from a helicopter to find one of Boston bombers hiding inside a covered boat. Very cool, but that story is somewhat of an outlier.

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Source:: Tactical Life