Friday, February 27, 2015

Seattle PD has a YouTube channel for its body camera footage

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Seattle's officer-worn camera footage is making its way online, but if you were hoping for anything Cops-like you're likely to be disappointed. In accordance with privacy measures, faces aren't the only parts of a shot that are blurred out -- most of the time it's the entire frame, and audio's been scrubbed as well. Seattle's police department's using methods recommended by volunteer hacker Tim Clemans, and according to SPD Blotter , the redacting process only took half-a-day to process four hours of raw video. Comparatively, the force's old methods would take upwards of a 60 minutes to obfuscate a single minute of footage.


As of now there're a handful of clips ranging from 4-to-30 minutes in length, with a majority of SPD BodyWornVideo's uploads coming from last month's Martin Luther King Day protests. The plan, according to The Seattle Times , is for the tools to get further refinements and then distribute them, for free, to other law enforcement agencies -- maybe even yours.


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Via: The Seattle Times


Source: SPD Blotter, SPD BodyWornVideo (YouTube)


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