The trail of evidence grows exponentially, but most cops are terrible art collecting the best evidence (partly because law/jurisprudence makes it difficult). M

The trail of evidence grows exponentially, but most cops are terrible art collecting the best evidence (partly because law/jurisprudence makes it difficult). Most cops still use fax as the primary method of requesting evidence from companies that are geographically distant. Collecting video camera evidence is slow and tedious so long as the department doesn’t have a volunteer database where residents can publish their location and other metadata. Filing requests digitally is still infrequent and usually done on portals specifically designed by tech companies to automate the tech company’s side. The moment there is a single portal which links lots of data which automated the police side of the legwork for all systems which support automation, that is when police start to actually collect a significant portion of the exponential data being collected.