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Taser International is in late stages of securing a body camera contract with New York City's immense police department, According to CNBC. With some 36,000 officers in its police force, the NYPD contract would not only help Taser's bottom line. It would also be one of the largest in a string of deals Taser has been aggressively lobbying for in its attempt to become a police body camera monopoly, similar to how it came to dominate the market for so-called "less lethal" police shock weapons.

The NYPD is testing body cameras from Taser and Vievu, the Seattle-based body camera company founded by a former Taser salesman and owned by tactical gear company the Safariland Group. "We've been laser focused on winning the biggest agencies on to our platform," Taser CEO Rick Smith told analysts in the company's earnings call last week.