I think I'm missing a body cam. I need to figure out which officer it belongs to.

Prosecutors rarely hand you discovery in one clean batch. You get body cam, dashcam, and documents across several dumps over the course of a case. And you can’t exactly know what you have until you've gone through hours of footage and thousands of pages.

If the incident report names an officer you haven't seen footage from, or another officer's camera catches someone on scene who doesn't have a file of their own, you need to confirm that for certain before you can file a motion to compel.

How does Reduct help with this?

As soon as you drag all your discovery into Reduct, it automatically transcribes and OCRs everything. With everything in a single place, Reduct can read the timestamp on the body cam and lay every file out on a single timeline by when it was recorded. So instead of opening one video at a time, you can see how many camera angles you actually have for a given date and time window and compare that against how many you should have.

Here’s how you can do it:

Step 1: Upload all your discovery to build a timeline

Drag and drop all of your discovery into Reduct. Once it's in, click on the Timeline view icon, scroll down to the bottom, and click the Auto-detect timestamps button.

Reduct reads the timing information embedded in your body cam and dashcam files and lays everything out in chronological order, grouped by date.

Step 2: Count what you have against what the report says

With everything grouped by date and time window, compare the number of camera files in a window against the number of officers the incident report lists as responding. If the report names four officers on scene between 4:41 and 4:44 p.m. and you only see three body cam windows for that time, that's your gap, and now you know which window it falls in.

This is useful before you've even opened a single video: it tells you where to look before you start watching hours of footage.

Step 3: Check the overlap for confirmation in multi-column view

Select the files clustered in that time window, then click the View multi column icon next to the PDF icon above your recordings list. This syncs every angle from that window on one screen, body-cam and dashcam together, each with its own transcript.

Scroll through and watch for officers who show up in someone else's footage but don't have a file of their own. A dashcam video implies a driver, so that driver should also have a body cam. Someone visible with a badge or uniform in another officer's frame should too. If you can see them on scene but you don't have their footage anywhere in the case, that's your missing officer.

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Insider tips:

• Once you've spotted the moment with the missing body cam, clip it from another camera angle. You can just highlight that part in the transcript and click Add composite to reel to pull it out as its own exhibit with its own transcript, ready to attach to a supplemental discovery request.