NYPD recruits are ditching textbooks and going paperless

Priscilla DeGregory, Tina Moore
Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:37:16 -0500

The NYPD is lightening the load for its newest class of recruits — replacing heavy departmental books and thick pamphlets with laptops. Microsoft computers were given to all 438 recruits at the Police Academy in Flushing, Queens, to replace the old training materials they previously hauled around in a duffel bag that weighed 65 pounds,...