Syncing storage to the patrol car isn't really a problem. We figured that out years ago with storage in the trunk. Most patrol cars already have lots of storage on a unit in the trunk that can save several days or weeks of video.BobbyK wrote:Storage. Storage at that kind of massive scale is pretty fucking expensive.
That said, if *I* were architecting a solution for this, it'd be spec'd for 24 hours of storage on the camera, cryptographic signing of the video so we can validate that it hasn't been fucked with, and automatic sync to a hardened storage device integrated to the patrol car, which in turn would sync to centralized storage at the station/depot/whatever.
What are you going to do about all those cops who don't have cars? Like me, for example. I'm basically a beat cop. Haven't had a patrol car in 12 years. My beat might include anywhere on a 20-acre campus, in multiple buildings and large outdoor spaces, like a football stadium. Everyone tends to think of police having cars, but only about half of cops are in government cars on any duty day. Yet, we're all subject to being in an incident at any time. There were weeks in my past assignment when I was involved in more incidents, and wrote more reports in a week than a standard patrol officer.
