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With all the smart sensors available today it should be possible to start recording automatically. You unholster or unbuckle your weapon, camera goes live. It's

by yardie 6y ago

With all the smart sensors available today it should be possible to start recording automatically. You unholster or unbuckle your weapon, camera goes live. It's become far too easy to say you forgot to do activate it in the heat of the moment. Even a 20yo car knows when a passenger is or isn't sitting in the seat.

Pfhreak 6y ago
Not only that, but the device could have ten minutes rolling before that in a circular buffer. But the problem here isn't one that we can solve with tech alone. It's cultural to the institution of policing.
- davidf560 6y ago
  > It's cultural to the institution of policing. It's not just culture, it's the police unions as well. Any new tech (like auto-recording when the weapon is drawn) generally has to have union approval. Unions are frequently resistant to these kinds of changes. That, and also police agencies in general are pretty much the exact opposite of high-tech. The younger officers probably embrace technology having grown up on it, but a lot of the more senior people are wary of anything technological and see it as just another hindrance to their job. These are not people who sit in front of computers all day like we do.
thescriptkiddie 6y ago
You can buy dash cams now with a 24 hour circular buffer and an onboard battery that lasts just as long. It would not be hard to just record everything for an entire shift, then copy the video to a server while the body camera is recharging.
- ocdtrekkie 6y ago
  Bandwidth is still the limiting factor here. Even with on-premise offload and storage, many municipalities aren't built to move the volume of data of recording every officer all the time. Add that cloud services are the bodycam goto which requires an Internet upload speed to match...
ocdtrekkie 6y ago
This is not just possible, it's available today. It's a question of law, policy, and procedure. It shouldn't surprise you that few people will choose monitoring beyond what's legally required.
mereel 6y ago
> You unholster or unbuckle your weapon, camera goes live. This has already been around for a few years https://www.axon.com/products/axon-signal-sidearm https://www.axon.com/products/axon-signal-sidearm, not sure about adoption numbers though
- yardie 6y ago
  "Capture vital footage without lifting a finger" Exactly what is needed.

by yardie 6y ago

Pfhreak 6y ago

Not only that, but the device could have ten minutes rolling before that in a circular buffer. But the problem here isn't one that we can solve with tech alone. It's cultural to the institution of policing.

davidf560 6y ago
> It's cultural to the institution of policing. It's not just culture, it's the police unions as well. Any new tech (like auto-recording when the weapon is drawn) generally has to have union approval. Unions are frequently resistant to these kinds of changes. That, and also police agencies in general are pretty much the exact opposite of high-tech. The younger officers probably embrace technology having grown up on it, but a lot of the more senior people are wary of anything technological and see it as just another hindrance to their job. These are not people who sit in front of computers all day like we do.

thescriptkiddie 6y ago

You can buy dash cams now with a 24 hour circular buffer and an onboard battery that lasts just as long. It would not be hard to just record everything for an entire shift, then copy the video to a server while the body camera is recharging.

ocdtrekkie 6y ago
Bandwidth is still the limiting factor here. Even with on-premise offload and storage, many municipalities aren't built to move the volume of data of recording every officer all the time. Add that cloud services are the bodycam goto which requires an Internet upload speed to match...

ocdtrekkie 6y ago

This is not just possible, it's available today. It's a question of law, policy, and procedure. It shouldn't surprise you that few people will choose monitoring beyond what's legally required.

mereel 6y ago

> You unholster or unbuckle your weapon, camera goes live. This has already been around for a few years https://www.axon.com/products/axon-signal-sidearm https://www.axon.com/products/axon-signal-sidearm, not sure about adoption numbers though

yardie 6y ago
"Capture vital footage without lifting a finger" Exactly what is needed.