Washington has a reliable habit: when it expands a federal law-enforcement agency, it eventually mandates accountability technology. For Customs and Border Protection — now the largest federal law-enforcement agency in the country — that accountability technology is the body-worn camera, and the dominant vendor in that market is AXON. The mechanism is simple: congressional pressure and executive directives pushing BWC deployment at CBP translate directly into hardware purchase orders and, more importantly, long-term SaaS contracts for Axon's Evidence.com digital evidence management platform. Software seats are recurring. They do not get cut when an administration changes; the footage already lives in the cloud.
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