Ohio police loses dash cam data

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About 12 percent of the Columbus police patrol vehicles that have dashboard cameras might not have been recording for almost a week because the division's storage server was full.

The server — where video is uploaded and saved for two years — reached capacity on Aug. 28, according to Deputy Chief Michael Woods.

It isn't clear how many incidents weren't recorded, Woods said.

"We haven't had an incident of a critical nature we've needed to record," he said.

Jason Pappas, president of Fraternal Order of Police Capital City Lodge No. 9, said he supports having cruiser videos. It can be evidence to support an officer's account of a case, or disprove a complaint about use of force.

Missing video, he noted, could breed distrust among the public.

"If we're not going to have a system that works properly, it's not worth having a system at all," Pappas said.

Pappas said the division notified the city's department of technology, which oversees the server system, years ago of the approaching storage issue, but nothing was done.

"Now it's a crisis," he said.

Woods agreed that "we knew this day was coming. It came a little sooner than we anticipated."