The Seattle Police Department has dropped its effort to analyze body camera video after an officer and union leader was captured joking about a deadly crash victim’s “limited value.”
The Open Vallejo news site discovered the decision as it reported on similar maneuvers involving its own police force.
“The Vallejo and Seattle police departments are the only law enforcement agencies to have ever terminated their contracts with Truleo, the Chicago-based company behind the software,” Open Vallejo reports. “In both cases, union officials campaigned to stop their department from using the technology after it allegedly risked surfacing problematic officer behavior.”
CHS reported last month on the video recording revealing the conversation between Seattle Police Officer Guild vice president Officer Dan Auderer and union president Mike Solan after a speeding SPD officer struck and killed 23-year-old Jaahnavi Kandula that has led to calls for discipline — and new efforts to rein in SPOG.
The Seattle Times reports SPD was in the middle of a two-year, $400,000 contract with Truleo and had been testing the system in a pilot program to analyze body-camera video and audio for “cues and patterns to monitor officer behavior.”
The Times reports the contract was canceled in February — two weeks after Auderer inadvertently left his camera running following the response to the deadly crash that killed Kandula.
An Office of Police Accountability investigation into the Auderer-Solan conversation continues. Auderer has been “administratively re-assigned to a non-operational position,” KING 5 reports.
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Could these motherfuckers be any worse
The SPD3MonkeyDefense.
The camera turning off shortly after realizing this horrid conversation was being recorded, the reporting of “potentially out of context” statements from body cam video, and moves to terminate the contract with the body cam review company all within less than 24 hrs is pretty damning! If there aren’t officers willing to stand up and say there’s something wrong here, then they should all be fired and we need to start from scratch… this is appalling!
Dang, caught. I guess we’ll abolish the police finally now after this. Back to work everyone.
pretty much cartoonishly evil but people (from your puffer vest dad to bruce harrell) will still make excuses for them
Just more of SPD doing what it does best: avoiding accountability.
It’s not abuse if we nobody sees us committing it (or the OPA reviews it).
The old “keep the bruises off the head and arms and no one will know” technique.
Oh, but shouldn’t they be ok with it if they have nothing to hide?
Don’t see any of the regular Junior Detectives That Have Had It Up To Here With Crime in the comments, huh.
Terribly interesting that no anti-Sawant or “fund the police” commentators have joined in this conversation. Is it possible that their arguments are moot when police violence, arrogance and active barbarism is proven?
It’s so selective, you’d think they’re either paid or gadflies.