I dont see the harm in helping out the cops...there is no reason to hassle them or the courts...just pull the times they need and hand it over...catching criminals benefits everyone.If you were not the victim, I would not give it up without a court order stating the specific time and date. Nothing more, nothing less.
So your going to tell your neighbor that you may have video of the suspects breaking into their house/business, but you don't feel like helping out - and the Police can get a warrant to seize your NVR?If you were not the victim, I would not give it up without a court order stating the specific time and date. Nothing more, nothing less.
I think the court order stuff is way over the top unless there is a compelling reason to do so, however, Chust has a valid point about your state and local laws. You could find yourself being arrested or sued for recording the audio (google it - it's already happened before) and even the video if it is a private area.Put yourselves on the other side. Your house/car was just broken into and your neighbor happens to have cameras. You call the police, and they knock on your neighbors door. They come back and tell you they are refusing to provide video unless you have a court order. I don't think I would EVER be friendly to those neighbors again!
...wanting your NVR's hardrive is ridiculous ...
That is an excellent point, I never considered it would be a murder investigation, the description certainly doesn't sound like it. I think if you recoded it like described in vector18's post it could certainly be an issue in court (a lawyer would most certainly want the original), however for anything less than murder or some other type of serious crime (like a terrorist investigation...) an exported version from the NVR would pass the "best evidence" rule. I say that because I record in BI's native .bvr format and the police have had no problems in court using the .mp4 recordings as copies of the originals. I do of course always save the .bvr formated version just in case there is an issue, which there never has been.It would depend on the seriousness of the crime. I mentioned "best evidence" - it is actually a "rule", google it and see. In a murder or other serious case, they are going to want the hard drive... What happened before and after the incident could also be relevant, for example did the incident really start when the police said it did or is there more to it?
A video exported out of the NVR would be considered original by the court, only a serious crime like murder would require something like the entire hard drive and even then the exported videos would still pass court muster I bet as long as an officer was there to witness the extraction. If a defense attorney wants to pay you for the NVR's hard drive in defending their client fine - let them pay for it.You have to give originals to the court! They archive them. Attorneys and judges usually only want a snippet of the video. No judge or jury will sit and watch hours upon hours of nothing.
I couldn't agree more!!!A video exported out of the NVR would be considered original by the court, only a serious crime like murder would require something like the entire hard drive and even then the exported videos would still pass court muster I bet as long as an officer was there to witness the extraction. If a defense attorney wants to pay you for the NVR's hard drive in defending their client fine - let them pay for it.
That's a double "LOL".Geeze! We all should've been attorneys!!! "LOL"
I have no idea if legally this is so but it probably is. I don't even know what "original" means. If I have a process that is automatically shuttling all video files every 24 hours from one drive to another are those copied files no longer originals? I think the proper term would be digitally unchanged, and a file copied over and over need not be changed in any way.A video exported out of the NVR would be considered original by the court, only a serious crime like murder would require something like the entire hard drive and even then the exported videos would still pass court muster I bet as long as an officer was there to witness the extraction. If a defense attorney wants to pay you for the NVR's hard drive in defending their client fine - let them pay for it.