HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Manager's Report - HBPD Report on Body Worn Cameras Pow5/19/2015
Background
Digital Audio Records Issued Years Ago
In Car Video or Dash Cameras used by Thousands of
Agencies for Years
Body Worn Cameras (BWC)
• First Models Developed in Zoo6 in UK
• US Law Enforcement Began Using BWC's in 2,009
• Technology Developing Rapidly: Increasingly More
Practical and Affordable
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Reasons to Consider BWC
• Evolving Standard/Community Expectations
• Significantly Enhances Evidence for Prosecutions
• Consistent Data form Multiple Agencies Found
• Dramatic reductions in use of force incidents
• Dramatic reductions in citizen complaints
• Decrease in assaults on officers
• Decrease in officer injuries
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87.5 % reduction in citizen complaints.
59•o% reduction in use of force.
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• This was attributed to the cameras, nothing else, because of
the random allocation procedure we used during the
experiment.
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Complications
• Evidence Storage and Retention
• Discovery and PRA Issues
• Costs
• Privacy Issues: Victim, Witness, and Officer Concerns
• Policy Issues
HBPD Pilot Program
• Three Companies: Fifteen Cameras Total
• Five Cameras Each Company
• Differing Hardware, Software, and Storage
• go-18o Days Various Officers/Assignments
• Total Cost of Pilot $15,000
• Grant Funds
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If Full Deployment???
• Start Up Hardware Costs
• 150 cameras and docking stations = $125,000
• Ongoing Annual Software and Storage Costs
• Unlimited data storage x 150 = $145,000
• Initial Hardware and One to Three Years of Storage
Covered in Grant Monies or Restricted Monies
• Ongoing costs eventually need to be budgeted
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