Exactly what words have I put in your mouth?
Body cam’s even when fully charged do not have the battery life or storage capacity to record an entire shift.
They also cannot be recharged during a shift without being turned off.
You don’t understand anything about batteries, storage, camera’s, or you’re fibbin’.
Your point is not pertinent. The tazer remains fully charged until it is discharged by use. The body cameras, if turned on as they should be, are discharging the battery continually. The fact that the tazer has “more juice” is immaterial.
From what I have read on body cams, they have about an eight hour or better batter life. That covers most shifts.
Not if they are running constantly.
Most cops are not working 8 hour shifts either, most departments split the days between two shifts.
“Both AXON cameras have an internal digital storage of 8GB and a battery life of about 14 hours, so the devices won’t die during an officer’s shift.”
That is at best a “best case scenario” with new BC’s.
Every time you run that battery through a cycle it’s life is going to be shortened a bit.
I looked heavily into this when the first “issues” arose and talked to my contacts in LE around the country, at best, you can generally hope for 8-9hrs life if they are running constantly which is why policy only requires they be activated when you are on a call.
Axxon’s own promotional literature says they have a max battery life of 12hrs when new.
8 gigs is not much storage capacity for HDEF cameras.
Still a simple solution.
Magnetic charge cable, camera turns on if it’s not charging automatically.
No need for it to record while in the vehicle…that’s what the dash cam is for. Even if the officer has to exit in a hurry the magnetic cable will just pop off and the camera would then turn on.
Not a bad idea but I don’t think you’re going to find cops agreeing to be tethered in any way.
Precisely. The battery life on your cell phone would be amazing if you never turned it on.
I remember when SWAT came for Roger Stone at like 4:30 as if they were raiding and ISIS compound and all I didn’t see any disapproval from the left the media on the left glossed over that fact.
What I have learned is the left is ok with swinging the power of police force as long is it’s pointed towards their foes.
I can’t remember now.
Did they shoot him?
Allan
That’s what I said.
No and further that only applies if they are run on the lowest resolution which of course gives you such crappy picture and video they might as well not have it on at all.
From article posted by @Samm
By contrast, rival provider VIEVU offers a 1280 × 720 LE3 body camera. Company president Steve Lovell says the high definition is advantageous when “when it comes to courtroom evidence.” That tends to produce larger files, but the VIEVU camera has 16GB of internal memory and 12 hours of recording time thanks to an extended battery pack.
And again that is the max possible under ideal conditions with a new camera recording at the lowest resolution.
Your link goes to a dead page error 404.
Resolution does not affect battery life, it only affects storage.
That isn’t true either. The higher the resolution the more energy required to process the data.
Insignificant.
No it isn’t. I run more than a dozen game cameras constantly so I’m very familiar with the difference in batter life between lowest and highest resolution.
Every discussion I’ve had wit LEO’s also confirms this.
We are off the point. The point is, there is no reason that each cop’s body camera cannot be operational every time they are actively interacting with a suspect. If they can remember to put on their cap upon exiting a vehicle, they can remember to turn on their camera. Battery life of body cameras is more than adequate to cover the action segments of their shift.
