Friday, December 5, 2014

"How The NYPD's New Body-Camera Program Will Work"

"The NYPD's pilot body-camera program is set to launch tomorrow (today) in three precincts across the city. Advocates of outfitting police officers with body cameras hope, among other things, that the devices will discourage officers from mistreating the public—and cause citizens to behave a little more politely toward cops, as well.... Cops have to turn body cameras on for them to work—though officers are supposed to turn them on during a number of specific scenarios, like when they stop a vehicle or arrest a suspect."

"The devices keep a record of every time someone accesses the file. The files are encrypted; even the camera company can't access them unless the NYPD grants permission. According to Vievu President Steve Lovell, the cameras include a feature called "Vidlock," which ensures that once a camera has been assigned to a server and database, video recorded on that device can only upload to that server and database. This means cops can't just hook their body cameras up to any old laptop with a USB cable and transfer files."

Video: Body cam refutes sexual assault claim against New Mexico officer...


12 comments:

chickelit said...

Unintended consequence: Lots of people caught out behaving stupidly on display.

ricpic said...

This is actually good from the cops' perspective. It's going to show just what unbelievable behavior cops have to put up with and its going to FORCE cops to take action when threatened or when an arrest is being resisted. After all, if the camera shows the cop endangered and the cop doesn't take action he faces dereliction of duty charges. This is going to blow up on racist DeBlasio/Sharpton.

Unknown said...

at some point, in our "everything is illegal" brave new world, we will all want one of those.

Shouting Thomas said...

A new explanation will have to be found for why the majority of perps are still black.

I have no doubt that that new explanation will be invented.

Tank said...

First, I love that video. Especially when they laugh.

Second, prediction: The cameras will help cops 100 times more often than criminals/alleged victims. We'll see.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Unintended consequence

that is what we cannot, no matter how well intentioned the motives may be, prevent.

we may be creating a new plethora of new problems.

or maybe not, and I just wanted to use the word plethora.

like trooper says, what do I know?

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

btw, a white cop who does not turn on his camera when stopping, or engaging a black person?

The disciplinary action against him should include the death penalty.

I'm just saying ;)

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

or force him to wear one of those shirts feminists hate for a whole week.

Rabel said...

"It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks."

And a cop price tag.

edutcher said...

Might be better with some sort of proximity-motion detection, but it's certainly a good step.

Tank said...

Second, prediction: The cameras will help cops 100 times more often than criminals/alleged victims. We'll see.

You read my nasty little mind.

I can see a lot of gentle giants and Skittles-munching hoodies exposed for what they are.

Or were.

Al Sharpton and the Choom Gang hardest hit.

Synova said...

I donno, ricpic. The thing about a camera that's on you all the time is that no one on the planet has the manpower hours to review those videos to find out what you *didn't* do.

William said...

North Korea intends to produce a really killer, uncensored version of Cops.