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cost savings?
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total cost of
ownership (operating expenses, maintenance, etc).
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funding sources
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would it qualify
for DHS funding?
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could it reduce
manpower needs?
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could it automate
manual processes?
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would it make
people feel safer
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would it make
people feel civil liberties were at risk?
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would it make
people feel it encouraged discrimination?
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would it make
people feel there was less risk of lethal consequences?
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is the technology
available to the general public?
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Police perception |
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would police feel
it made them safer?
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would police feel
it was easy to use?
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would police feel
intimidated by training it required?
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would police feel
it complicated their jobs?
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would policefeel
it endangered them?
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Would it increase potential liability? |
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(For
electronic technologies) is it based on Open Standards, and does
that make it both cheaper and more robust than competitors based
on proprietary systems? |
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Is
it too cutting-edge to be reliable at this point? |
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Operations: |
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would it speed up an
existing process and make it a more effective tool?
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would life-cycle
costs be too high?
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will it foster
"digital convergence " by interconnect well with other
technologies?
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would it require
significant disruption to daily routines?
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would it allow
us to do things we can't today?
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would it facilitate
collaboration with other jurisdictions and agencies?
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Is it approved by the CIJ? |
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would it interface easily with legacy technology? |
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is it likely to become obsolete rapidly? |
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