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NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly has been a harsh critic of violent games like Grand Theft Auto in the past.
But a report in Newsdaysuggests that Kelly's own officers may soon be using video game tech totrain on firearm tactics. The training will include simulatedshoot/don't shoot confrontations with game-like avatars who moverealistically and have authentic facial expressions.
Therecommendation for specialized video game training comes from the RandCorporation. The think tank was hired in the wake of theNYPD's controversial shooting of an African-American man, Sean Bell, on his wedding day in 2006.
Rand's Bernard Rostker told Newsday:
[TheNYPD's] current simulators are very good, but it's pretty oldtechnology... [Video] gaming has gotten a bad reputation becausethey're all about shoot-'em-ups. But maybe a better way of looking atit is to look at something like the NBA basketball [video games]. Thequality of the figures is very real and the quality of the facialexpressions is very real. If you can give a student a lot of scenarios,it changes the nature of the learning experience.