more cop video follies

Posted on: Thu, 04/22/2010 - 17:57 By: Tom Swiss

More from the "cops love video surveillance except when it's of them" file: the Seattle PD told Eric Rachner it had deleted the recordings of his questionable arrest, take by the department's standard-issue squad car video camera.

But Rachner's a computer security guy and didn't leave it that: he got ahold of the specs for their system, found out that the data was logged, demanded the logs under public disclosure laws, and eventually obtained to video that supposedly didn't exist.