I spent over ten years in criminal defense and civil matters, and every case brought more bodycam and audio to review than there were hours for it. BodyCam Defense is the solution I built for that problem.
A single case can arrive with hours of body-camera, dashcam, and surveillance video. The prosecution has investigators and staff to comb through it. A solo defense attorney, or a small civil-rights practice, has nights and weekends.
So the footage gets reviewed under pressure — scrubbed at 2x, rewound, half-watched while three other matters wait. The frame where an officer's hand moves to a weapon, the second a Miranda warning should have been given and wasn't, the moment force was used — those are the moments a case turns on. Miss one, and you have lost ground you cannot get back.
That is not a fair fight, and it is not about effort. It is about hours in the day. BodyCam Defense was built to take the grind out of that review — not the review itself. A paralegal can run the first pass from a few plain-language instructions, and the attorney goes through the footage with the transcript, the flagged moments, and the lists already in hand.
I am a defense attorney with more than ten years in the work — across both criminal defense and civil matters — and I also build and deploy AI applications. BodyCam Defense came out of both halves of that.
Across both kinds of practice, the evidence keeps arriving as recordings. I have spent entire days working through bodycam and dashcam video, jail calls, recorded interrogations, 911 audio, and recorded interviews — minute by minute, in criminal cases and civil ones alike. Watching the footage is the job, and I never wanted to skip it. What I wanted gone was everything around it — scrubbing back to re-find a moment, transcribing by hand, keeping notes in a separate document. The hours that surround the review without ever being the review.
So I built the tool I wanted, and then I kept building. Now a paralegal can run the first pass from a few plain-language questions, and you go through the footage with a transcript and the flagged moments as your guide. It produces courtroom work product as you review — bookmarked moments, issue lists, witness lists, the footage organized to use on the stand and in front of a jury. You still watch the video. You just stop fighting it.
— D. Taylor, Esq.
BodyCam Defense does one job well — it turns footage into evidence you can use. It is not a case-management suite and it does not pretend to practice law.
The same footage-review capacity, whether you are a public defender's office or a solo practice. Resources should not decide which moments get found.
The scrubbing, the rewinding, the transcribing by hand — that overhead should not eat the lawyer's week. A paralegal can run the first pass, and the review itself starts from organized work product instead of raw video.
The output is evidence organized for use — bookmarks, issue lists, witness lists — ready for a suppression motion, a cross-examination, or a moment shown to a jury.
BodyCam Defense produces a record, not a theory of the case. The visual transcript uses court-appropriate language: it states what is on camera — a hand on a holster, a person on the ground, blood visible near a bench — without claiming to know why. The events of interest are flags, not conclusions. Every screen carries a plain reminder that the output is AI-generated and that any quote should be verified against the source footage before it is relied on. The strategy, the framing, the argument — those stay where they belong, with the attorney.
See how BodyCam Defense turns an hour of bodycam into a transcript you can search, filter, and cite. No signup, no scheduling — six real clips, the full workbench.