how do crime documentary filmmakers get all their police footage?

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Audio of 911 calls…police body cam footage…police interview footage…crime scene photos…what, do filmmakers just call up the cops and say “Hey, I’m making a documentary” and the cops are like “sure thing, here’s all this stuff”?

I guess I don’t understand what’s in it for the cops to share. And is none of this stuff considered private?

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Public records requests, FOIA, etc. You’d be surprised the kind of data that is accessible.

All the stuff on YT is released quite fast and people make successful businesses out of free information all the time now.

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