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And not just a few minor documents either. No, according to the Dallas Police Department, that employee somehow managed to erase eight terabytes worth of crime data during a data migration back in April, though the damage is just now coming to light.

According to the Dallas County District Attorney’s office, officials there didn’t learn about the data loss until August 6th, when it asked the DPD why several pending court cases were missing files.

> And not just a few minor documents either. No, according to the Dallas Police Department, that employee somehow managed to erase eight terabytes worth of crime data during a data migration back in April, though the damage is just now coming to light. > According to the Dallas County District Attorney’s office, officials there didn’t learn about the data loss until August 6th, when it asked the DPD why several pending court cases were missing files.

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8TB really doesnt mean much, if its body cam footage who knows the resolution and compression rate, i wonder how big their entire database is to help put this in context. it would also help to know if its just documents(which if thats the case holy fuck is that alot lost) or various media types

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I'm sure a lot of that data was police abuse.

Oops, guess we'll just move on, it's not like destroying evidence is a crime or anything... when a cop does it.

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I'm sure a lot of that data was police abuse.

That was my first thought, too.

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Oh really? So he "accidentally" wiped the servers, and "accodentally" cleared the physical backups from storage? That's a heck of a trip down the stairs.