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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


https://technology.ihs.com/532501/245-million-video-surveillance-cameras-installed-globally-in-2014)


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



(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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www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lapd-body-cameras-20151217-story.html


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



How video analytics helps

Business unit executive for IBM’s law enforcement and policing solutions (i2 COPLINK and Integrated Law Enforcement)

Tim Riley, IBM



Video analytics adds rich tagging or indexing of the video footage.




Speed retrieval and redaction of footage to meet compliance requirements and assist investigations.




Search for individuals using people characteristics such as hair color, skin tone, clothing color to develop tactical leads.




Understand patterns and trends to predict vulnerabilities.




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



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



Including patrol, follow-up units, IT section, records and FOIA—and allow for community engagement and transparency.

Involve all stakeholders



Camera use policy, video retention policy, FOIA responses and redaction policy.

Develop department policies



Locally or in a cloud, considering labor requirements and scalability.

Decide where to store data



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



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.



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.



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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