Several cities around the country including New York, Los Angeles and Seattle have been testing body cameras in their police departments. Seattle just launched a YouTube channel to store and post footage for the public to view. The videos on SPD BodyWornVideo aren’t easy to watch – not necessarily due to violence but because most of them are blurry “to hide the identities of people caught on tape.”
The Seattle Police Department created software to redact images and eliminate sound from the body camera footage, which allows the department to edit “more than four hours of footage in just half a day, whereas the old method would’ve required days of work.”
