Plus every officer totes a city-supplied cell phone, and the car computers detach as laptops and can be carried along on an interview. The body and dashcams generate big data storage and retrieval fees each month, with a problem being no agency I know can actually afford the staff time to review the images unless something went badly wrong.
Those stats on CPD's record-keeping practices are blowing my mind. That's like four record-keeping system per police district! We definitely need to rework that, that's completely untenable and a huge waste of resources.
Yep. And you'll notice that it's gotten almost no attention. On most of the other issues, there's enough in the way of CPD asks or committee hearings to prompt coverage from the Sun-Times or Trib. But the recordkeeping issues, which may well be worse, are just buried in reports.
Plus every officer totes a city-supplied cell phone, and the car computers detach as laptops and can be carried along on an interview. The body and dashcams generate big data storage and retrieval fees each month, with a problem being no agency I know can actually afford the staff time to review the images unless something went badly wrong.
Those stats on CPD's record-keeping practices are blowing my mind. That's like four record-keeping system per police district! We definitely need to rework that, that's completely untenable and a huge waste of resources.
Yep. And you'll notice that it's gotten almost no attention. On most of the other issues, there's enough in the way of CPD asks or committee hearings to prompt coverage from the Sun-Times or Trib. But the recordkeeping issues, which may well be worse, are just buried in reports.