The wages of stupid: homeowner shot in Greenville, SC

[GBExpat]

Thank you!

 

[Trunk Monkey]

I had a police officer bang on my door at 7AM, which is even earlier when you work nights and get home at 6AM. I always answer the door with my weapon holstered or behind my back. PID on a police officer, I put the weapon safely away.

I drove home from Ft. Carson to Omaha one night.

At about 3 am I heard someone yelling in the entryway. I went to the head of the stairs and the BIGGEST Douglas County Sheriff's Deputy I have ever seen was standing inside my door with his teeny tiny little female partner.

They had been driving by and noticed the front door standing open and they where doing a check.

 

[CapnMac]

Note how the audio is blanked out until after the shots are fired. Kinda makes ya wonder.

I'm told that the bodycams default to not record audio as a default, so, there's a 30 second lag when an incident is pulled off the camera. Most PD routinely "blank" anything pertaining to personal identity.

 

[herrwalther]

I'm told that the bodycams default to not record audio as a default, so, there's a 30 second lag when an incident is pulled off the camera. Most PD routinely "blank" anything pertaining to personal identity.

Audio can be more important than video in a developing situation. All the departments I worked with had body cameras that recorded audio. Body cameras have come a long way in a short amount of time. The body camera I wore at work had to be manually turned on with either a remote or pushing the record button. Many of the police officers I worked with had cameras that auto recorded when they left the patrol car, audio and video recording, by the time they get out the car door. And they turn off in "safe" business areas. I got rapidly used to a microwave type beep when an officer would come into the facility control room indicating their camera was not recording, and it would beep again when they entered the facility hallway and turn back off when inside their patrol vehicle. All automatically.