▲ 310 ▼ Cops get paid 6 figures for this (thelemmy.club) submitted 1 week ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/thepoliceproblem@lemmy.world 64 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (2 children) Did they literally take a photograph of the monitor? Take a screenshot ffs. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] yakko@feddit.uk 14 points 1 week ago I'm happy for them to suck at this permalink fedilink source parent [–] egrets@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 child) There's a fair chance the Walmart CCTV is airgapped so there's no convenient way to get the image off. (It could even be ancient and analog - unlikely, but I could believe it.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* In my experience, while bigger corporations are more likely to have the means, they're also more likely to have all kinds of corporate red tape forbidding providing footage when law enforcement arrives (gotta get every rung of the leadership ladder to sign off, maybe even Legal). I've had months between the reported incident and corporate approval to provide the footage, usually a CD. In situations like those, Loss Prevention "pretends not to notice" when you take a photo of the CCTV freeze frame with your agency-issued camera, and something like this is the result. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] yakko@feddit.uk 14 points 1 week ago I'm happy for them to suck at this permalink fedilink source parent
[–] egrets@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 child) There's a fair chance the Walmart CCTV is airgapped so there's no convenient way to get the image off. (It could even be ancient and analog - unlikely, but I could believe it.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* In my experience, while bigger corporations are more likely to have the means, they're also more likely to have all kinds of corporate red tape forbidding providing footage when law enforcement arrives (gotta get every rung of the leadership ladder to sign off, maybe even Legal). I've had months between the reported incident and corporate approval to provide the footage, usually a CD. In situations like those, Loss Prevention "pretends not to notice" when you take a photo of the CCTV freeze frame with your agency-issued camera, and something like this is the result. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* In my experience, while bigger corporations are more likely to have the means, they're also more likely to have all kinds of corporate red tape forbidding providing footage when law enforcement arrives (gotta get every rung of the leadership ladder to sign off, maybe even Legal). I've had months between the reported incident and corporate approval to provide the footage, usually a CD. In situations like those, Loss Prevention "pretends not to notice" when you take a photo of the CCTV freeze frame with your agency-issued camera, and something like this is the result. permalink fedilink source parent