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How to manage video from body-worn camerasA roundtable with body-worn camera experts
Body-worn camera issues
IBM Public Safety business unit director for law enforcement and emergency management solutions.
Steve Russo, IBM
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1,000,000hours of video per week.
(1) IHS, June 11, 2015. (https://technology.ihs.com/532501/245-million-video-surveillance-cameras-installed-globally-in-2014)
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If New York City Police Department implemented a body-worn camera program: 35,000 officers at 5-6 hours per shift generates over
Video data is big data
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Policies for the storage and management of >1M hours of recorded video.
Comply with the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other privacy laws.
Comply with the FOIA as well as Criminal Justice (CJIS) standards.
Video programs need policies & compliance
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(2) www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lapd-body-cameras-20151217-story.html
Recently, the LAPD estimated 122 additional positions would be required to support more than 6,000 intended body-worn cameras.
Without analytics, costs can sky rocket.
Understand and plan for costs
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Much security and body-cam footage is never looked at (dark data) even though it might contain valuable intelligence for investigative lead generation.
Video data must be analyzed to provide value
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How video analytics helps
Business unit executive for IBM’s law enforcement and policing solutions (i2 COPLINK and Integrated Law Enforcement)
Tim Riley, IBM
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Video analytics adds rich tagging or indexing of the video footage.
How video analytics helps
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Speed retrieval and redaction of footage to meet compliance requirements and assist investigations.
How video analytics helps
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Search for individuals using people characteristics such as hair color, skin tone, clothing color to develop tactical leads.
How video analytics helps
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Understand patterns and trends to predict vulnerabilities.
How video analytics helps
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Video analytics for body-worn cameras: Understand and index what is recorded
Capture Collect Manage Analyze
Camera docking Captured videos Sensor data
Easy retrieval of incident videos
Intelligent object redaction
High-value intelligence exploration = lead generation
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Body-worn camera program tips
Vice president at VIEVU, joined after a distinguished career as a police officer in Washington state.
Joe Pioli, VIEVUibm.co/lawenforcement
Understand limitations and set realistic expectations.
Do your research
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Including patrol, follow-up units, IT section, records and FOIA—and allow for community engagement and transparency.
Involve all stakeholders
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Camera use policy, video retention policy, FOIA responses and redaction policy.
Develop department policies
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Locally or in a cloud, considering labor requirements and scalability.
Decide where to store data
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Lessons from the Dunwoody, Georgia, police department
Police chief for the Dunwoody, Georgia, police department and incoming president of the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police.
Chief Billy Grogan
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About their body-worn camera program
Started rollout in 2015 with 33 cameras.
Finished rollout with 50 cameras.
Using Taser Axon cameras and cloud storage.
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Why they invested in body-worn cameras
Greater accountability for police officers and citizens.
Reduced incidence of and complaints about use of force.
Demonstrably high levels of transparency.
Protect police officers from frivolous complaints.
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Lessons learned during planning and deploymentIdentify the right officers to be assigned body-worn cameras.
Follow a scripted process when rolling out the program.
Identify retention procedures based on the state record’s retention laws.
Identify the process to release body-worn camera video through FOIA requests.
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