Body camera video equivalent to 25 million copies of “Barbie” is collected but rarely reviewed. Some cities are looking to new technology to examine this stockpile of footage to identify problematic officers and patterns of behavior.
  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    10 months ago

    That’s troublesome right there, it should be an outside commission that gets to see and choose which officers are flagged.

    Truleo’s software allows supervisors to select from a set of specific behaviors to flag,

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
      3·
      10 months ago

      Were probably talking like hundreds of thousands of hours of new recordings each week. There’s zero chance a human is going to review that all.

        • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          10 months ago

          Yes, that’s what I meant. The 3rd party would have get to see all of the info and they get to decide which flags to look for. IMO, then the third party, the police union and a civilian commission gets to vote on whether the officer stays or not. The unions have way too much power.