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by brandonbloom 915 days ago
(disclaimer: I was a software engineer at Axon)

It’s also worth noting that recording can be activated wirelessly by various triggers. The most obvious and common one being that a nearby officer’s camera was activated (either by physically pressing the button or via a chain reaction of wireless activations).

Depending on the available hardware/accessories & configuration, other sources of activation can include unholstering a weapon, aiming or discharging a taser, by computer aided dispatch, unlocking a weapon in the vehicle, activating the light bar, high vehicle speed, running, falling, crashing, and more.

In my opinion, if multiple officers are on the scene at least one axon recording device each: there is either video evidence or willful suppression of evidence. It’s that simple.

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Publicly sharing hashes of video segments as they're created, would validate both the existence of, and unaltered nature of the video.
This is one of the few good use cases for a blockchain outside of crypto