Why Baltimore And 2 Other Cities Sued America’s Largest Body Camera Maker

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Why Baltimore And 2 Other Cities Sued America’s Largest Body Camera Maker
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A trio of East Coast cities are hoping to do what the Feds could not: successfully show that Axon forced their police departments to overpay.A Los Angeles police officer wear an AXON body camera during the Immigrants Make America Great March to protest actions being taken by the Trump administration on February 18, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.early a decade ago, in August 2014, America was rocked by the police killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old Black man in Ferguson, Missouri.

Filed in federal court in New Jersey, the suit claims that the Arizona-based company formerly known as Taser International bought VieVu, one of its key competitors, to secure four major contracts that had eluded it: New York City, Oakland, Miami-Dade and Phoenix. Then, under its new Axon brand, it aggressively raised prices for clients that had few other options. Within a year, Axon’s body cam prices had risen 50 percent. By 2022, those prices had nearly tripled, reaching $490 per camera.

“Every dollar that are overcharged is a dollar that they can’t spend on critical police items,” he said.that the company believes the lawsuit is “based in large part on unproven and dismissed allegations” and should be dismissed. “We compete with large, well-funded and highly respected companies, as well as numerous smaller companies relying on inexpensive camera technology,” she said.

That said, the lawsuit’s success is hardly a sure thing, and potentially a grueling uphill battle, one Axon has won before. In January 2020, the Federal Trade Commissionover its acquisition of VieVu, arguing that it would reduce competition in an already concentrated market.

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