BrutishMrFish
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Yeah, I'm starting to think that the prosecutors that keep fucking up a lot of these cases involving police misconduct are doing it on purpose.
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Video Appears To Show Baltimore Police Planting Drugs At A Crime Scene
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Yeah, I'm starting to think that the prosecutors that keep fucking up a lot of these cases involving police misconduct are doing it on purpose.
mechashiva
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This with your avatar is perfect.
SlipperyMoose
Member
Everyone involved in that video should be fired.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
Yep. He missed the part where they said to make sure the camera falls off.
shira
Member
I guess he didn't read the manual
Dreams-Visions
Member
I wonder how much storage would be required to store say...
- small but reasonable range of color
- 18fps
- 640x480 (maybe even 480 interlaced)
For a full shift (so let's say 8 hours)? Anyone have any guesses? Just thinking about how much storage space would be required to indeed store say 4 months of data for 1 officer.
- small but reasonable range of color
- 18fps
- 640x480 (maybe even 480 interlaced)
For a full shift (so let's say 8 hours)? Anyone have any guesses? Just thinking about how much storage space would be required to indeed store say 4 months of data for 1 officer.
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Rastafarian42
Member
Not surprising at all.
Leviathon007
Member
Seriously guys. It is pretty obvious that he forgot to turn on the camera when they actually found the drugs.
Just trying to replay the events on camera.
Just trying to replay the events on camera.
FTFY
Durrzerker
Banned
Yeah its a stupid excuse for sure, I just remember them making a big hubbub about it
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
I always laugh at the bad apples argument. One bad apple could plant evidence and put you away for years, or take your life. Its not like bad apples in another industry where maybe they try to upsell you when all you want are your tires rotated.
I can't wait till bodycams are federally required and signs of tampering are cause for some sort of disciplinary action. Oh wait, I was daydreaming again.
I can't wait till bodycams are federally required and signs of tampering are cause for some sort of disciplinary action. Oh wait, I was daydreaming again.
Osukaa
Member
I used to think otherwise as a kid but from the experiences I've seen some people have and plus all this stuff I sadly have to agree. The biggest gang in the US is our Police Force.. fckn disgusting and it is such a messed up thing to know there are innocents doing time for set ups like this..
As someone supposed to protect and serve the people they deserve the harshest punishments for shit like this.
I would buy the "bad apples" position if bullshit didn't happen every damn day.
HamPster PamPster
Member
Makes sense that Baltimore, the city where the police have a small fleet of drones recording the city, is worried about storage space /s
Dreams-Visions
Member
This will be his successful defense, yes. With the other officers verifying the story.
I see. Is that ~20GB per day or for 4 months? I assume 4 months but I didn't want to assume.
smokeandmirrors
Banned
Quick mental calculation around 20gb give or take
Big Baybee
Member
Should be on at all times during a shift. Stop buying tanks and other unnecessary weaponry and use some of that civil forfeiture cash on storage.
Black Republican
Member
too much freedom
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
They're continuously recording, they're just not retaining the video footage if the camera isn't switched on for storage reasons.
My work just installed cameras. I was talking to the installation guy about storage; We have a 4 terabyte hard drive, 11 hi-def cameras capturing 24 hours a day, and the system saves 30 days of data before it starts deleting the old stuff, not necessarily because of space concerns, they just picked 30 days as a nice round number.
Power requirements would probably be the bigger issue. Would probably need a decent sized pack to last 8-10 hour shifts.
Baltimore Police is under a court ordered consent decree: https://www.baltimorepolice.org/transparency/department-justice
Big Baybee
Member
Prosecutor still tried to get the person arrested to go along with a plea deal, even though this footage was in their possession. Just garbage all around.
TheSecondSpitter
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AstroNut325
Member
H264 at 1080p x 30fps @ 4Mbps is about 2GB per hour. With H265, I think it's around 1.3-1.4GB per hour. For 480p at 18fps, you can probably get away with 1 Mbps. At 1Mbps, 1 hour of video is about 450MB. So for a full shift, about 4GB. So a cheap USB stick will be sufficient.
TheLetdown
Member
The officer in question has been counseled for his actions.
We are confident that this was enough punishment.
yankeeforever2
Member
As IT support for a government all I could do is laugh at this half our budget would be fucking storage.
Oppo
Member
I wish they'd stop using that idiom the wrong way anyhow.
"A few bad apples spoils the barrel"
which is what everyone has been trying to tell them for years
anyways clearly the "OFF" button on those body cams should actually be "HIGH QUALITY MODE"
The Faceless Master
Member
the other cops were just worried about how they would be able to support their families if they hopped the blue wall!
The Faceless Master
Member
paid leave -> resign -> get hired at a PD a few counties away
That shit is insane to me too. I feel like there should be a national registry for stuff like that. I'm a former teacher and on applications they straight up ask if your license has been suspended and there is an online database you can look to see licensure status. I wonder why something similarly cannot be applied to law enforcement. Getting fired from a department should be flagged for any other department you attempt to apply to.
BaltimoreLarry
Member
Not surprising
Behold the power of a strong union. No wonder Republicans are trying to squash them. Aside from this one of course.
There can only be one... Union...
As a cop you can literally walk up and execute any civilian on the street without consequence, doesn't matter if it's caught on film or not because 99/100 times there won't be any charges. Particularly if it's a minority. They all know they are above the law.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Cops plant drugs?! I for one am shocked! Utterly shocked I tell ya
Dreams-Visions
Member
So about 750GB per officer to store 6 months of full 8-hour shifts. Assuming battery life issues could be resolved, hopefully this is something that can happen in the future. Also, that's about 1 exabyte for the entire US police force? Interesting. Anyway, that is a very reasonable amount of storage in 2017 on a per department basis and only gets more affordable as time goes along. Hopefully we get there.
Agency where I work uses the same vendor as Baltimore PD for body cameras. They deployed theirs in 2016 I believe, not sure which model. There are two in widespread use from this vendor. One is standard def, 8GB storage. The other model, which is likely the one Baltimore uses, is high-def (1080p/720p) and has 64GB storage.
They are spec'ced with more storage than you'd think because some departments do 12 hour shifts, and a cop could respond to a call 5 minutes before his shift is up that ties him up for additional time.
Japanmanx3
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Dave been told me about this!
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