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Philadelphia Police are still using typewriters, according to a story on Technically Philly. Photo courtesy of Technically Philly.
Philadelphia Police are still using typewriters, according to a story on Technically Philly. Photo courtesy of Technically Philly.Read more
    by Joshua Cornfield, Daily News
    Published 
On any given day, you can find a Philadelphia cop clacking away at a typewriter. 
He might be a detective writing a search warrant, or she could work in the Narcotics Unit and be writing a report about the drugs she just confiscated.
It's just another part of the job.
Right now, Philadelphia's cops use typewriters to write both property receipts, which must be filed when an officer takes any object off someone, and search warrants. Cops have to use typewriters because those reports are pre-formatted and numbered to keep track of them and protect against fake versions. They must be fed into the typewriter or handwritten. 
The city has been waiting 10 years and has spent more than $7 million on a proposed system that would digitize all of the typewriter-genreated reports, so why are cops still using typewriters?

On any given day, you can find a Philadelphia cop clacking away at a typewriter.

He might be a detective writing a search warrant, or she could work in the Narcotics Unit and be writing a report about the drugs she just confiscated.

It's just another part of the job.

Right now, Philadelphia's cops use typewriters to write both property receipts, which must be filed when an officer takes any object off someone, and search warrants. Cops have to use typewriters because those reports are pre-formatted and numbered to keep track of them and protect against fake versions. They must be fed into the typewriter or handwritten.

The city has been waiting 10 years and has spent more than $7 million on a proposed system that would digitize all of the typewriter-generated reports, so why are cops still using typewriters?

Read the entire story at TechnicallyPhilly.com.