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Mr. Luddite

On 11/26/2014 11:54 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 21:51:48 -0500, BAR wrote:

The police should wear cameras the entire time they are on
duty.
You do understand the amount of data we are talking about I assume?

Maybe a half a gig an hour for a low resolution picture times 1.1
million cops. 2 petabytes of data by lunch time on the first day. How
long do we keep this data?

You do start getting the "Staci" problem. The East Germans collected
far more data than they could actually look at.

I do understand that when **** happens, it is great to have the video
but Wilson had 18 years on the force with nothing spectacular ever
happening to him. That is a lot of boring video.

I think the videos cameras used in the police cars just re-write after
30 minutes or so. They don't keep continuous video files.

Also, I don't think they are on all the time. They are turned on when
the officer makes a stop.