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reviewing and redacting recordings for <br />prosecutors, the media, and the public. <br />Are these costs offset by enhanced <br />accountability, less use of force, and other <br />significant benefits? <br />Commander Ralph Ennis: The DC <br />Metro Police had to designate 11 full-time <br />equivalents to run the camera program <br />and conduct audits. Each patrol district <br />has a body camera coordinator; Internal <br />Affairs and the Criminal Investigation <br />Division each have one as well. Their <br />wholejob is to make the camera program <br />run smoothly. It takes up a lot of time. But <br />responding to Freedom of Information <br />Act (FOIA) requests is not as big a job <br />as was anticipated. <br />' Chip Coldren: CNA conducted a <br />randomized controlled trial of body <br />cameras in Las Vegas. A cost - <br />benefit analysis included costs of <br />camera purchases, licenses, software, <br />infrastructure upgrades in every <br />precinct, professional services, training, <br />and monitoring, and responding to FOIA <br />requests. The costs of the program <br />came to $1 million per year. These <br />were more than offset by savings in <br />complaint investigations. However, <br />there are always more costs than what <br />police departments account for—body <br />cameras offload costs onto prosecution, <br />courts, defense. <br />IChief Mike Brown: These hidden costs <br />are scary because they're ones that <br />departments cannot easily forecast. <br />Video evidence needs to be handled <br />differently from other evidence and <br />requires criminal justice agencies to <br />hire extra staff to handle it. Protecting <br />the privacy of persons caught on video <br />requires significant amounts of time to <br />view and massage videos. <br />Chief (ret.) Tom Manger: The <br />Montgomery County (MD) Police <br />Department decided to purchase <br />body cameras in 2015, a decision <br />that prosecutors and the court didn't <br />necessarily support, due to the additional <br />workload and cost that would impact <br />them. It took a while to resolve problems <br />and get all the resources needed for the <br />program by all parties affected. While <br />the elected officials supported the use <br />of BWCs, they did not initially provide <br />adequate funding for the program. We <br />learned that, as you grow a body camera <br />program, it expands exponentially as <br />more video is acquired. We had to hire <br />additional staff as the program grew. <br />Chip Coldren: Our study documented <br />a dramatic and significant reduction in <br />complaint investigations as a result of <br />introducing body cameras in the Las <br />Vegas Police Department—more than <br />enough to pay for program costs. But it's <br />important to realize that you're not going <br />to achieve those reductions every year. <br />Even if you start with great results and <br />great savings, they will diminish over <br />time. <br />• Police Body Cameras; What Have We Learned Over Ten Years of Deployment? 1 18 <br />