everybodhi
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This seems to imply the cameras were turned on after the shooting.
"In Damonds case, the body cameras were not turned on until after the shooting, according to investigators; so far, the only details about what happened have been provided by one of the officers in the car."
There is a 30 second buffer on the cameras, like a TiVo, they are recording all the time but don't save the film unless the cam is activated at which point it saves 30 seconds before they push the button.
These devices can be programmed to save up to 2 minutes but they have chosen to set them at 30 seconds.
"Even though the Minneapolis body cameras have to be turned on, there is a failsafe for when officers only start filming after something takes place. The cameras worn by Minneapolis officers come with what is known as a buffer time function, which means they are always filming but almost never actually saving the footage. When the cameras are manually activated, they save the 30-second clip filmed right before the officer started recording.*(Similar technology is used within some public transit agencies, like several in the Washington region, which use constantly filming cameras that perpetually record over old footage unless the system is triggered and begins saving those clips.)"
LE has body cameras but they don't use them much, apparently.
"According to The Washington Posts database tracking police shootings, there have been at least 547 fatal shootings by police*this year, and 57 of them involved police-worn body cameras, on pace to trail last year but be up from two years ago.
There were 963 fatal shootings by police last year, and 138 of them involved officers wearing body cameras. In 2015, the first year The Post began tracking such shootings, there were 991 fatal shootings by police with 74 of them captured on video."
What the Minneapolis police shooting tells us about the limits of body cameras
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...imits-of-body-cameras/?utm_term=.42fd73232899
"In Damonds case, the body cameras were not turned on until after the shooting, according to investigators; so far, the only details about what happened have been provided by one of the officers in the car."
There is a 30 second buffer on the cameras, like a TiVo, they are recording all the time but don't save the film unless the cam is activated at which point it saves 30 seconds before they push the button.
These devices can be programmed to save up to 2 minutes but they have chosen to set them at 30 seconds.
"Even though the Minneapolis body cameras have to be turned on, there is a failsafe for when officers only start filming after something takes place. The cameras worn by Minneapolis officers come with what is known as a buffer time function, which means they are always filming but almost never actually saving the footage. When the cameras are manually activated, they save the 30-second clip filmed right before the officer started recording.*(Similar technology is used within some public transit agencies, like several in the Washington region, which use constantly filming cameras that perpetually record over old footage unless the system is triggered and begins saving those clips.)"
LE has body cameras but they don't use them much, apparently.
"According to The Washington Posts database tracking police shootings, there have been at least 547 fatal shootings by police*this year, and 57 of them involved police-worn body cameras, on pace to trail last year but be up from two years ago.
There were 963 fatal shootings by police last year, and 138 of them involved officers wearing body cameras. In 2015, the first year The Post began tracking such shootings, there were 991 fatal shootings by police with 74 of them captured on video."
What the Minneapolis police shooting tells us about the limits of body cameras
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...imits-of-body-cameras/?utm_term=.42fd73232899
