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posted by martyb on Monday July 31 2017, @06:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the What-does-this-button-do? dept.

Ars Technica brings us an update to an earlier story in which a court case was thrown out when a police officer's body cam showed him planting drugs before 'finding' them immediately after. Now prosecutors in Maryland are reviewing other body-cam footage and have already thrown out 34 criminal cases with many more under review:

The Baltimore Police Department's body cams, like many across the nation, capture footage 30 seconds before an officer presses the record button. The footage was turned over to defense attorneys as part of a drug prosecution - and that's when the misdeed was uncovered.

[...] "We are dismissing those cases which relied exclusively on the credibility of these officers," Mosby told a news conference Friday. She said the dismissed cases, some of which have already been prosecuted, involved weapons and drugs.

Lesson learned cops - plant drugs, wait 30 seconds, then turn on the camera!


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday August 01 2017, @12:57AM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 01 2017, @12:57AM (#547460) Journal

    2. Have the recording start at randomly up to 10 minutes before the officer presses the button.

    Yes, easy, a small amount of thiotimoline is all that's needed.

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  • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday August 01 2017, @01:17AM (2 children)

    by Immerman (3985) on Tuesday August 01 2017, @01:17AM (#547472)

    Or you just record everything, constantly, into a 30 minute buffer and then dump it into a permanent file whenever the "Record" button is pushed.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 01 2017, @01:25AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 01 2017, @01:25AM (#547476)

      But then, this wouldn't be random, would it?
      And randomness seems to be a mandatory feature (grin)

      • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday August 01 2017, @02:23AM

        by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday August 01 2017, @02:23AM (#547488)

        The point of the randomness is that you don't want the officer to know how long they need to stall between starting the encounter and turning on the camera.

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