Does the body-cam match the officer's statement?

The officer's statement says your client "became combative" when approached. You now need to watch body-cam footage from 3 different officers before the hearing in the morning.

What matters is catching the 3 or 4 places where the officer's version and the video's version pull apart.

Here's what that looks like when you're doing it in Reduct:

Say the officer's statement includes lines like these

• "Subject was uncooperative from the initial approach."
• "Subject reached toward his waistband."
• "Force was used only after the subject resisted."

Each one is a claim you can check directly against the source in Reduct:

You generate a summary with custom questions

Once you know the specific claims you want to check, you ask the police report custom questions directly:

The summary comes back organized around your three claims, and each answer comes with clickable links straight to the moment it's pulled from.

You click through, and one of them doesn't hold up

The statement says the reach happened before the officer gave any commands. The video shows the officer already had a hand on your client's arm before anything resembling a reach. You can put that contradiction in front of the officer under oath.

You ask a follow-up question directly

You go back in and ask Reduct whether the officer says anything about the reason for the stop before the search begins. The answer points to a spot where the stated reason changes partway through, something the statement never mentions.

You label it and move on

You mark that moment, label it with the claim it contradicts, and keep going through the rest of the statement's assertions the same way. By the time you're done, you have 4 labeled clips and the exact questions that will make the officer address them on record.