City Spends a Cool Million on Typewriters for Cops
NYPD adds "hunt and peck" to "protect and serve"
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Just wait until Sheriff Taylor hears about this.
New York City's finest has just invested nearly $1 million in some cutting-edge crime-fighting technology: typewriters.
In an age when most virtually every desk in every home and office is outfitted with a personal computer, the city last year signed a $982,269 contract to purchase new manual and electric typewriters from Swintec, reports the New York Post.
And last month they signed $99,570 deal with Afax Business Machines to maintain laughably outdated Brother, Panasonic and IBM Selectric typewriters.
Why would the greatest police force in the world need typewriters? The NYPD incredibly still uses carbon-paper forms (ask your grandpa) for property evidence vouchers.
"It just doesn't make sense that we can't enter these [vouchers] on computer," one cop told the Post.
While cops may not be thrilled with having to manage mountains of paper work with decades-old office equipment, at least Swintec sales manager Ed Michaels is happy.
"They have a lot of forms to fill out, so we're still here," he said.
