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I wish I had more concrete information, but I remember hearing about one police department treating bodycam recordings in public and in private places different
by pfranz 7y ago
I wish I had more concrete information, but I remember hearing about one police department treating bodycam recordings in public and in private places differently for this reason. I imagine the officer would tag it when they left their shift or offloaded the footage.
In general, I've heard reviewing the footage is a huge undertaking and an unexpected burden. I wouldn't be surprised if, like many backup systems, they're not often tested and found to be insufficient when they go to pull a video...but, then again, they also deal with evidence which has similar requirements.
- wpietri 7y agoThis strikes me as such a good opportunity for putting the cognitive surplus to work. I would totally volunteer to review and tag police footage for my local PD. Given the popularity of cop reality shows, I'd think plenty would.
- tick_tock_tick 7y agoI mean tons of people would just to creep on their neighbors which is not what body cams are meant for.
- wpietri 7y agoSure, but I think it's possible to set a system up like that so it's reasonably hard to misuse. E.g., I have to sign up, sign an NDA, and get trained in person. Then I'm not just given full access to untagged video, but I'm treated like a Mechanical Turk worker: I get assigned a video, tag it, appropriately, and move on. And if I leak stuff inappropriately or misuse my powers, I face criminal charges for privacy violation.
- dmitrygr 7y agoor do it cross-towns. you only get to tag things from random towns that are >= 50 mi from you. and they might do yours
- djakjxnanjak 7y agoA system with enough manual control that the officer has the task of tagging and offloading the footage sounds like a system where inconvenient footage will be mysteriously deleted.
- pfranz 7y agoI feel like that's being addressed as body cams get rolled out. I've heard about procedures to address faking damaged equipment and other excuses for "missing" footage. Cruisers have had video for awhile now, so it's not completely new.