Police Turn Up Volume for GOP Convention

[Roon]

NEW YORK - Forget the megaphones. Police will have a much more high-tech — and louder — option to make themselves heard over the din of Manhattan traffic and noisy protesters outside the Republican National Convention.

The department recently bought two of the 45-pound acoustic sound machines for $35,000 apiece, and plans to mount them on Humvees posted outside Madison Square Garden. It would mark the first time the instrument — which can beam sounds for 300 yards or more — has been used by a civilian force.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&u=/ap/20040819/ap_on_el_pr/gop_convention_protest_12&printer=1

To you DUers that warned this was coming when it was first deployed in Iraq...Good Call!

[Eric J in MN]

1. Protestestors should bring professional quality ear plugs

like flight crews near planes use.

Also, decibel readers so that if their hearing is damaged, they can sue.

Read my blog article on this:

http://www.moveleft.com/moveleft_essay_2004_08_19_new_york_police_will_be_armed_with_sound_device.asp

[rucky]

2. I heard Van Halen's opening for 'em.