The City of New York has just signed a three-year, $1 million deal for typewriters, the majority of which will be used by the NYPD. While the department has undergone a technology overhaul, it is still ongoing.The NYPD made unfortunate news this week when the New York Post reported that the Big Apple had signed a $1 million contract with a vendor to purchase thousands of new manual and electric typewriters during the next three years.
Many companies no longer make typewriters so procuring them must have been a challenge for the city. The NYPD needed most of the new typewriters.This is peculiar because the Armed Services started computerizing offices in the early 1980s.The police are still typing reports using carbon paper and storing data in file cabinets. The shame of it!
This problem in the NYPD likely relates to IT leadership, programming and police training. Fortunately in the Armed services, most of the people who opposed technological change had retired many years ago.
Source: http://www.cio.com/article/497384/Why_IT_Change_Is_Hard_Typewriters_Still_in_Use_at_NYPD (Thomas Wailgum)
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