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Spokane police spend approximately $320,000 on body camera storage per year
- eberkund 8y agoThat doesn't sound that outrageous. AWS S3 would come to close to $50k/yr for that amount of data and presumably this body camera footage storage company provides some additional value beyond just raw data storage that is encapsulated in that cost.
- TaylorGood 8y agoAn extra $270k in additional value?
- londons_explore 8y agoVideo transcoding and a UI to scan through, categorize, tag, etc. sounds pretty valuable. Who knows - it might integrate with case tracking software and do speech to text and semantic search etc.
- ThePadawan 8y agoI would assume that high availability and cloud accessibility are directly opposed to the requirements of the use case, though. Store-once, read pretty-much-never should drive the price down by a large factor.
- DoubleMalt 8y agoBut for the use case you'd use glacier, not S3.
- bearbox 8y agoWhy not use Google Drive ? It offers unlimited storage for businesses.
- brianwawok 8y agoUnlimited doesn’t mean what you think it does.
- colejohnson66 8y agoIt’s unlimited until you abuse it in most cases
- brianwawok 8y agoWhat do you think storing PBs of video for an entire police department is?
- ConcernedCoder 8y agoIs that too much? How much is it worth to us to have at least a chance at oversight for peace officers? I think if it saves one life, it's worth it.
- mmcwilliams 8y agoThe product they seem to be using is Axon enterprises “Evidence.com” which details some features here: https://www.axon.com/products/evidence https://www.axon.com/products/evidence I think that there is some potential for oversight, but I don’t see any clear language denoting citizen access or FOIA compliance. What I do see is tools for metadata tagging and procecutorial access. What concerns me is that these huge centralized services will grow to be something akin to license plate scanners, but for faces and with the ability to walk around and into private spaces.
- reilly3000 8y agoSpokane’s history of recent, overt racism and brutality from its police force earned them need for such an expense. Otto Zhem, racial profiling, and a cover up culture essentially mandated the body cameras.
- jmpman 8y agoThe video is landing in Azure storage. I’m sure Evidence.com is making a good margin on the service. They were offering free body cameras to police forces, in the old razor/blade model.
- phonon 8y agoDoesn't seem so bad...it provides a lot more than "dumb storage" for $89 a month. https://axon.cdn.prismic.io/axon%2F4f80e99a-b5d6-414e-bcd8-d5fb3d5d52da_program+card+-+axon+plans.pdf https://axon.cdn.prismic.io/axon%2F4f80e99a-b5d6-414e-bcd8-d...