The police reports are retained in hard copy. Any recordings of incidents detailed in these reports are apparently backed up in a more haphazard fashion.

Some of the videos were backed up on CDs, but those that were not are lost.

„No police reports, nor any criminal history information, was lost, Barlag said.“

Comforting… for the police department. Not so much for criminal defendants, who are going to have an even harder time arguing against „our word vs. yours“ assertions — which cops can back up with police reports while giving defendants nothing at all to push back with.