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When that uploading includes recoding and other processing, it's plausible.

This video is probably encoded 2-3 times. The first time it is digitized in the camera. The cops might have recoded after taking it off the camera. And then youtube.

This is some low budget police department whose IT department is probably a secretary who happened to have a PC at her house in 1993 when the spot was created.

Warez scene release come with errors with regularity and those guys release stuff all the time and know what they are doing.



> Warez scene release come with errors with regularity and those guys release stuff all the time and know what they are doing.

That's because they are supposed to make edits (cutting out the commercial breaks, for instance), the errors happen because the edits are done hastily, in order to release first.

The police isn't supposed to edit or tamper with the video at all, and I can't imagine any way edits like this (missing bits and looping) can just appear by accident or technical error. The only edit I can imagine to happen by accident is an interrupted upload/transfer, which would cause the video to be truncated at some point, all the way to the end. It can't just leave parts out in the middle or loop certain bits.




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