When body cameras first rolled out, someone (an actual person) had to review the footage. Officers had to wait for that review to be completed before ending their shift. If I recall correctly, that wait was overtime at first and then policy was modified and it became unpaid time.
No offense, but that _sounds_ like a super-specific policy :)
Also, how would that even work? Is there a second person who's watching the first cop's entire day? Like, even at 8x speed that's an hour for to watch an 8 hour shift.
It seems like a more reasonable / likely policy is that the video footage is automatically archived and then deleted after a reasonable time (3 months? 6? a year?) if it's not requested by anybody.
That way someone can request the relevant footage when a (hopefully infrequent) complaint is made, possibly after the requester has gotten a lawyer (etc), but the 99% of the footage that isn't useful never consumes anyone's time ("Watch as Officer Smith.. PATIENTLY WAITS FOR THE LIGHT TO TURN GREEN!!!1!!!1" :) ).
It can absolutely vary by department. However, the NYPD historically has set trends other departments follow.
From their Patrol Guide, below is what an officer is to do with video before their next tour of duty. My local department adopted this language almost verbatim.
These cameras are not upload and forget it. I'd encourage you to read on some of this as your comment "how would that even work" tells me your jaw is about to be on the floor when you read about the levels of red tape attached to these. To be clear, I'm pro camera and accept these costs of oversight. That doesn't mean the system cannot be improved.
Fun, but sarcastic idea: YouTube is filled with First Amendment Auditors. @AuditTheAudit has 818,495,408 views... let's let departments upload and have would be FA auditor viewers review, and if needed, tag videos for Internal Audit review. The People were going to give their time away anyhow, might as well save some fellow tax payers money... Wait, I take this back. I can see the officers now starting the body cam footage to talk about Better Help and Express VPN... never mind!
NYPD Patrol Guide 212-123:
16. Access the video management system on the Department Intranet or
Department smartphone to classify videos based upon the nature of the event.
a. Select one category for BWC video retention from the dropdown
list in the following priority order:
(1) Arrest,
(2) Homicide,
(3) Summons,
(4) Investigative Encounter, and
(5) Uncategorized.
b. Document the nature of event from dropdown list (e.g., EDP, DV
incident, home visit, etc.),
(1) If the nature of the event cannot be selected from the
dropdown list, enter a description of the event and include
the associated ICAD number.
c. If related to an arrest, enter the complete arrest number, beginning
with the borough letter designation in the appropriate field, and/or
d. If related to a Terry Stop/Level 3 Encounter not involving an
arrest, enter the Stop Report number in the appropriate field.
17. Categorize all BWC videos by the end of next scheduled tour
I enabled this four months ago and I have had the same experience.
It’s not that I couldn’t retype the config file I accidentally wrote over while tinkering, but I like the safety that comes with Timeshift to try and fail a few times.
Hard lessons come hard. This softens those lessons a little while maintaining the learning.
On the one hand, I want to make money.
On the other hand, I understand that making everything available for free would be much more aligned with the Project Gutenberg philosophy.
I left my job, living on the savings, and in the last year listenly made only $400 ~= $35 MRR.
Although I was not doing much marketing.
I'm dreaming of it making $1k, $3k, $5k MRR.
Right now, I set the price to be 50% of the API cost, so I would make a profit starting from the 3rd same book purchase.
But maybe I should make it fully social project, get some donations, and treat it as "lead magnet" to monetize something else.
I'm open to your suggestions!
I do AI consulting and I did some audio related projects where I basically resold ElevenLabs + quality control. EL is much better than OpenAI imho.
Monetizing is good but there is no value proposition in the product.
The chances I'll get something I'd like to listen are low because:
- AI errors
- AI lack of emotion
- You picked a voice I've heard in thousands of automatically generated youtube videos and that I came to hate.
There is no chance I'd buy this, I'd rather buy an audiobook made by a human.
Now, people may not understand that - but then they'll be disappointed, bother you for a refund (chargebacks are 15$ a pop if you don't) or just speak badly about the project. Repeating sales potential is pretty bad imho.
I hope I don't come across as rude.
If you are really set on this idea I'd recommend to generate 1 book, make it perfect until it reads like it should and then sell it on as many platforms as you can (Amazon mainly I guess). Maybe use a custom cloned voice so it will sound unique and constistent across all books.
You don't need a website but you have one so you might as well use it for marketing and maybe to gauge interest for the next book to process.
I registered the domain modernfuckingwebsite.com a few years ago with the intent of building the evolution of this where you don't forego niceties because someone hates JavaScript.
I haven't built it yet because all the frontend frameworks suck still.
Maybe Astro? I don't know yet. I continue to renew the domain in hopes that something will come along.
It is worse. If I disable CSS then it is better. The defaults are not trash, but the desired fonts, colours, etc should be set up by the user so that the author does not need to know what size is appropriate for that user and for that user's computer and display (or if the user wishes to make a print out, etc).
Just tiled a backsplash two days ago. The problem with tile is that on most tile, the glaze at the manufactured edges looks different from the glaze on a cut edge. It sort of has a pillowed look at the manufactured edges but it is a hard edge when you cut it.
Also: cutting tile is a lot more tedious than cutting wood. And it's definitely messier.
If you resign yourself to manufactured shapes for the bulk of your work, you're now kind of limited to the shapes and sizes you can buy. And then you have to hope that the sizes accommodate the size grout lines you want to use.
That said, if someone out there starts making actual Penrose tiles in the next couple of years, I'll buy some when I do our entryway. They've got time to tool up. It'll be at least that long before I'm willing to do another tiling project.
