Patent Publication Number: US-11386514-B2

Title: Device, system and method for electronically requesting and storing missing digital evidentiary items

Description:
BACKGROUND 
     Reviewing digital evidence of public-safety incidents, such as videos and incident reports, can be time consuming and prone to error. Furthermore, missing digital evidence may lead to loss of time in pursuing charges for public-safety incidents and/or may lead to lesser offenses being prosecuted when a greater offense has occurred. 
    
    
     
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       The accompanying figures, where like reference numerals refer to identical or functionally similar elements throughout the separate views, together with the detailed description below, are incorporated in and form part of the specification, and serve to further illustrate embodiments of concepts that include the claimed invention, and explain various principles and advantages of those embodiments. 
         FIG. 1A  and  FIG. 1B  is a system for electronically requesting and storing missing digital evidentiary items, in accordance with some examples. 
         FIG. 2  is a device diagram showing a device structure of computing device for electronically requesting and storing missing digital evidentiary items, in accordance with some examples. 
         FIG. 3  is a flowchart of a method for electronically requesting and storing missing digital evidentiary items, in accordance with some examples. 
         FIG. 4  depicts an example of a method for electronically requesting and storing missing digital evidentiary items implemented in the system of  FIG. 1A  and 
         FIG. 1B , in accordance with some examples. 
         FIG. 5  continues to depict the example of a method for electronically requesting and storing missing digital evidentiary items implemented in the system of  FIG. 1A  and  FIG. 1B , in accordance with some examples. 
         FIG. 6  continues to depict the example of a method for providing a recommendation to review a portion of a video based on importance scores, in accordance with some examples. 
         FIG. 7  depicts an example of a dashboard that may be provided at a display screen of the system of  FIG. 1 , in accordance with some examples. 
         FIG. 8  depicts an example of a detailed timeline of an incident provided at the dashboard of  FIG. 7 , including respective indications of jurisdictional digital evidentiary items associated with the incident, in accordance with some examples. 
     
    
    
     Skilled artisans will appreciate that elements in the figures are illustrated for simplicity and clarity and have not necessarily been drawn to scale. For example, the dimensions of some of the elements in the figures may be exaggerated relative to other elements to help to improve understanding of embodiments of the present invention. 
     The apparatus and method components have been represented where appropriate by conventional symbols in the drawings, showing only those specific details that are pertinent to understanding the embodiments of the present invention so as not to obscure the disclosure with details that will be readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art having the benefit of the description herein. 
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     Reviewing digital evidence of public-safety incidents, such as videos and incident reports, can be time consuming and prone to error. Furthermore, missing digital evidence may lead to loss of time in pursuing charges for public-safety incidents and/or may lead to lesser offenses being prosecuted when a greater offense has occurred. For example, an incident (e.g. a public safety incident) may be of a given type that may be prosecuted according to different offenses depending on the available evidence. In a particular example, in an incident having an incident type of “stolen goods”, the incident may be prosecuted as petty theft, grand theft, robbery and/or armed robbery depending on a value of items stolen and/or presence of an offender and/or weapons carried by the offender. However, when evidence, and in particular digital evidence, is missing and/or incomplete, the incident type of the robbery may be misclassified; for example, when there is no digital evidence that an offender carried a gun (and the like), the incident type of stolen goods may be prosecuted as a robbery rather than an armed robbery. The problem may be particularly challenging when digital evidence is stored across various databases operated by different jurisdictional agencies. 
     An aspect of the present specification provides a method comprising: receiving, at a dashboard computing device, from distinct jurisdictional agency computing devices, indications of jurisdictional digital evidentiary items associated with an incident; determining, by the dashboard computing device, based on an incident type of the incident, one or more offenses associated with the incident type; determining, by the dashboard computing device, required digital evidentiary items to prosecute the one or more offenses via a digital offenses-to-evidentiary-items mapping; identifying, by the dashboard computing device, a missing digital evidentiary item for prosecuting the one or more offenses by: comparing the indications of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items with the required digital evidentiary items; identifying, by the dashboard computing device, a jurisdictional agency, associated with one or more of the distinct jurisdictional agency computing devices, that is most likely to have access to the missing digital evidentiary item; and rendering, by the dashboard computing device, at a display screen, an actuatable option for electronically requesting the missing digital evidentiary item from the jurisdictional agency. 
     Another aspect of the present specification provides a dashboard computing device comprising: a communication unit; and a controller in communicatively coupled with a display screen and the communication unit, the controller configured to: receive, via the communication unit, from distinct jurisdictional agency computing devices, indications of jurisdictional digital evidentiary items associated with an incident; determine, based on an incident type of the incident, one or more offenses associated with the incident type; determine required digital evidentiary items to prosecute the one or more offenses via a digital offenses-to-evidentiary-items mapping; identify a missing digital evidentiary item for prosecuting the one or more offenses by: comparing the indications of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items with the required digital evidentiary items; identify a jurisdictional agency, associated with one or more of the distinct jurisdictional agency computing devices, that is most likely to have access to the missing digital evidentiary item; and render, at the display screen, an actuatable option for electronically requesting the missing digital evidentiary item from the jurisdictional agency. 
     Attention is directed to  FIG. 1A  and  FIG. 1B , which depict an example system  100  for electronically requesting and storing missing digital evidentiary items associated with an incident (e.g. a public-safety incident). The system  100  comprises a dashboard device  101 , which may comprise a computing device and/or a public-safety computing device, which generates a dashboard at a display screen  103 , for example for reviewing digital evidence. The dashboard device  101 , interchangeably referred to hereafter as the device  101 , is hence generally configured to communicate with the display screen  103 ; a reviewer  105  may operate and/or interact with the device  101  via the display screen using at least one input device  106  (e.g. such as a keyboard (as depicted), a pointing device (as depicted a mouse), a microphone, and the like). The device  101  further has access to a memory and/or database  107  (e.g. as depicted a centralized digital evidence database) storing indications of digital evidence, as described in more detail below. Communication links between components of the system  100  are depicted in  FIG. 1A  AND  FIG. 1B , and throughout the present specification, as double-ended arrows between respective components; the communication links may include any suitable combination of wireless and/or wired links and/or wireless and/or wired communication networks. 
     The dashboard device  101  may comprise one or more cloud servers and/or one or more premises-based servers, and the like, and may be operated and/or managed by a public-safety agency such as a police force and/or a court system and the like. The dashboard device  101  will be described in more detail below with reference to  FIG. 2 . The dashboard device  101  may generally provide services related to collecting and providing indications of digital evidence in a dashboard for reviewing digital evidence; such services provided by the dashboard device  101  may include, but are not limited to, processing information from the database  107  and/or generating information for storage at the database  107 . Examples of a dashboard provided by the dashboard device  101  are described in more detail below, however, such a dashboard may include a graphical user interface (GUI), and the like, showing a timeline of events associated with an incident, for example as represented by digital evidence and/or lists of digital evidence, and the like, for one or more incidents (and in particular public-safety incidents). 
     The display screen  103  and the at least one input device  106  may generally comprises components of a terminal, and the like, which may be operated by the reviewer  105  to review the indications of digital evidence stored at the database  107 , as provided at a dashboard rendered at the display screen  103 ; in particular, the display screen  103  and the at least one input device  106  of the terminal of may be used by the reviewer  105  to interact with the dashboard device  101  to review the indications of the digital evidence stored at the database  107 , and provided at a dashboard, to assist the reviewer  105  in determining an offense with which an offender in an incident may be charged, as described in more detail below. 
     As depicted, the reviewer  105  may comprise a prosecutor, a first responder and/or public-safety officer, and in particular, a police officer, and/or any other suitable reviewer, and the like, who is reviewing indications of digital evidence stored at the database  107 . However, the reviewer  105  may comprise any suitable reviewer of digital evidence including, but not limited to, a records management clerk, an officer of a court, a store manager, a security guard, a lawyer, and the like. Hence the reviewer  105  may or may be a public-safety officer. Similarly, while present examples are described with respect to public-safety incidents, the methods, devices and systems described herein may be applied to incidents that are not public-safety incidents including, but not limited to, incidents in privately owned spaces such as malls, and the like, incidents related to workplace safety, workplace employment, and the like. 
     In particular, as depicted, the dashboard device  101  is in communication with a plurality of distinct jurisdictional agency computing devices  109 - 1 , . . . ,  109 -N, interchangeably referred to hereafter, collectively, as the jurisdictional agency computing devices  109  and, generically, as a jurisdictional agency computing device  109 . The number “N” is any suitable integer representing a number of distinct jurisdictional agency computing devices with which the dashboard device  101  is in communication. While only two (e.g. N=2) jurisdictional agency computing devices  109  are depicted, the system  100  may comprise any suitable number of jurisdictional agency computing devices  109 . 
     For example the jurisdictional agency computing devices  109  may comprise computing devices, servers, cloud computing devices, and the like, operated and/or managed by different jurisdictional agencies including, but not limited to, police agencies (such as a city, state or federal police agencies), hospitals and/or medical agencies, fire departments and/or agencies, and the like. Indeed, the term distinct jurisdictional agencies may be understood to mean different agencies and/or public safety agencies (e.g. police, medical, firefighters, and the like) of a jurisdiction (e.g. a city, a county, a municipality, a state, a country, and the like, and/or private agencies such as private security companies, private entities and/or businesses, and the like), and/or different jurisdictions that may respond to and/or investigate incidents and collect evidence for the incidents. 
     For example, as depicted, each jurisdictional agency computing device  109  is in communication with a respective memory and/or database  110 - 1  . . .  110 -N, interchangeably referred to hereafter, collectively, as the databases  110  and, generically, as a database  110 . A database  110  generally stores respective digital evidentiary items associated with an incident. For example, as depicted, the database  110 - 1  stores jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  111 - 1 ,  111 - 2  associated with a given incident represented by incident data  112 ; the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  111 - 1 ,  111 - 2  are interchangeably referred to hereafter, collectively, as the digital evidentiary items  111  (and/or the items  111 ) and, generically, as a digital evidentiary item  111  (and/or an item  111 ). 
     Similarly, the database  110 -N stores jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  113  associated with a given incident represented by incident data  114 ; while details of the two digital evidentiary items  111  are shown, and the digital evidentiary items  113  are depicted more generically, the digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113  may comprise any suitable number digital evidentiary items of any suitable type including, but not limited to digital videos (e.g. BWC video, security camera video, and the like); digital images; digital audio; digital incident reports (e.g. police, medical, fire, security, workplace, and the like); digital radio logs, digital medical reports; digital fingerprints, and/or any other suitable type of digital evidence. 
     In particular, as depicted, the digital evidentiary item  111 - 1  comprises an incident report (e.g. “Report”) for an associated incident, and the digital evidentiary item  111 - 1  comprises video (e.g. body worn camera video (BWC) for the associated incident; in particular the incident data  112  may comprise data indicative of the incident for which the digital evidentiary items  111  were collected. The incident data  112  may comprise an incident type (e.g. “Stolen Goods”, and the like), an assigned incident number, an address of an incident, a date, a time, suspects for the incident, and the like. Associations between components stored at memories and/or databases herein are shown using dashed lines; hence, as depicted, the digital evidentiary items  111  are associated with the incident data  112  (and/or an incident defined by the incident data  112 ). Furthermore, while only two digital evidentiary items  111  are depicted, for one incident (e.g. one set of incident data  112 ), the database  110 - 1  may store any suitable number of digital evidentiary items  111  for any suitable number of incidents (e.g. any suitable number of sets of incident data  112 ). Furthermore, the digital evidentiary item  111  may further comprise a date and/or time at which a digital evidentiary item  111  was acquired and/or generated, an identifier of a person and/or public-safety officer, and the like, operating a device that acquired and/or generated the digital evidentiary item  111 , and the like. In yet further examples, the incident data  112  may be optional and/or a portion thereof may be incorporated into a digital evidentiary item  111 . 
     The digital evidentiary items  113  may be similar to, or different from, the digital evidentiary items  111  and be associated with incident data  114  that may be similar to, or different from the incident data  112 . For example, as depicted, the digital evidentiary items  113  comprises digital fingerprints and an incident report (“Report”) that comprises an incident report of the judicial agency associated with the computing device  109 - 2  (e.g. and which is different from the incident report of the digital evidentiary item  111 - 1 ). As also depicted, the incident data  114  may comprise an incident type (e.g. “Stolen Goods”) that is the same (e.g. as depicted) or different from an incident type of the incident data  114 . Furthermore, the incident data  112 ,  114  may be associated with a same incident (e.g. which has been responded to by different jurisdictional agencies) or different incidents. 
     As depicted, the jurisdictional agency computing device  109 - 1  may be in communication with any suitable number of digital evidence collection devices  115 - 1 ,  115 - 2 , interchangeably referred to hereafter, collectively, as the digital evidence collection devices  115  and, generically, as a digital evidence collection device  115 . In particular, as depicted, the digital evidence collection device  115 - 1  comprises a mobile device (e.g. operated by a police officer) and the digital evidence collection device  115 - 2  comprises a body-worn camera (e.g. worn by the police officer). Hence, for example, the digital evidentiary item  111 - 1  (e.g. an incident report) may be generated and/or acquired by the digital evidence collection device  115 - 1  (e.g. a mobile device implementing an incident report application), and the digital evidentiary item  111 - 2  (e.g. a BWC video) may be generated and/or acquired by the digital evidence collection device  115 - 2  (e.g. a body worn camera); the digital evidentiary items  111 , and the incident data  112 , may be uploaded to the database  110 - 1  via the jurisdictional agency computing device  109 - 1  (and/or the jurisdictional agency computing device  109 - 1  may receive the digital evidentiary items  111 , generate the incident data  112 , and store the digital evidentiary items  111  in association with the incident data  112  at the database  110 - 1 ). Furthermore, while two digital evidence collection devices  115  are depicted, the jurisdictional agency computing device  109 - 1  may be in communication with any suitable number of digital evidence collection devices  115  of any suitable type. In addition, while the depicted digital evidence collection devices  115  are both mobile devices, in other examples, a digital evidence collection device  115  may not be a mobile device. 
     While no digital evidence collection devices are depicted as being in communication with the jurisdictional agency computing device  109 -N, such a depiction is merely for simplicity and it is understood that the jurisdictional agency computing device  109 -N may be in communication with any suitable number of digital evidence collection devices of any suitable type, and that such digital evidence collection devices may collect the digital evidentiary items  113 . 
     As depicted, the database  107  has received respective indications  121 ,  123  of jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  111 - 1 ,  113  (e.g. but not an indication of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary item  111 - 2 ) from the jurisdictional agency computing devices  109 . For example, the indication  121  comprises any suitable data indicative of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary item  111 - 1  which may include, but is not limited to, the incident data  112  (e.g. and which, as depicted, may include an incident type), a type of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary item  111 - 1  (e.g. a “Report”), an identifier (e.g. an alphanumeric identifier, and the like; as depicted “City PD (“Police Department”)) of the jurisdictional agency that collected the jurisdictional digital evidentiary item  111 - 1 , and the like. However, in general, the indication  121  of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary item  111 - 1  may not include the jurisdictional digital evidentiary item  111 - 1  itself. 
     Similarly, the indication  123  comprises any suitable data indicative of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  113  which may include, but is not limited to, the incident data  114  (e.g. and which, as depicted, may include an incident type), a type of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  113  (e.g. a “Report”), an identifier (e.g. an alphanumeric identifier, and the like; as depicted “State Police”) of the jurisdictional agency that collected the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  113 , and the like. However, in general, the indication  123  of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  113  may not include the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  113  itself. 
     However, in other examples, the indications  121 ,  123  of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113  may include the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  113  itself, however such examples may lead to increased memory usage at the database  107 . 
     Hence, the database  107  may act as a central repository for digital evidence across different jurisdictions. For example, jurisdictional agencies operating and/or managing the jurisdictional agency computing devices  109  may subscribe to a service offered by an entity (e.g. a private company, a court-based entity, and the like) operating the database  107  and agree to transmit indications of digital evidence stored at the database  110  to the centralized digital evidence database  107 . As such, the reviewer  105  may have access to digital evidence across a large number of jurisdictional agencies. For example, the indications  121 ,  123  may be viewed, by the reviewer  105 , via a dashboard provided at the display screen  103 , as described herein, and the reviewer  105  may retrieve associated digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113  from the databases  110  via the indications  121 ,  123 ; as such, it is further understood that the indications  121 ,  123  may further comprise respective links, and the like, to locations of associated digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113  at the databases  110  for easy retrieval of the digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113  by the reviewer  105 . 
     While as depicted the database  107  does not store an indication of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary item  111 - 2 , population of the database  107  with indication of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary item  111 - 2  is described in more detail below. For example, the jurisdictional digital evidentiary item  111 - 2  may comprise a missing digital evidentiary item as described in more detail below. 
     Indeed, the device  101  may further determine whether particular jurisdictional digital evidence is missing from the database  107  and/or use the indications  121 ,  123  to determine offenses that may be prosecuted using the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113 . 
     For example, as depicted, the device  101  is in further communication with a database  117  that stores an incident type  129  (e.g. as depicted “Stolen Goods”) in association with data indicative of one or more offenses  130 - 1 ,  130 - 2 ,  130 - 3 ,  130 - 4  associated with the incident type  129 . The data indicative of offenses  130 - 1 ,  130 - 2 ,  130 - 3 ,  130 - 4  is interchangeably referred to hereafter, collectively, as the offenses  130  and, generically, as an offense  130 . Furthermore, while four offenses  130  are listed, the incident type  129  may be associated with fewer than four offenses  130  (e.g. and as few as one offense  130 ), or more than four offenses  130 . 
     For example, as depicted, the incident type  129  comprises “Stolen Goods” and the associated offenses  130  comprise “Petty Theft”, “Grand Theft”, “Robbery” and “Armed Robbery”. Put another way, when goods are stolen, an offense that is prosecuted as a result of the goods being stolen may depend on a value of goods stolen (e.g. petty theft vs grand theft) and/or presence of an offender stealing the goods by force (e.g. theft when the goods are stolen surreptitiously vs robbery when the goods are stolen in person by force) and/or weapons carried by the offender (e.g. robbery vs armed robbery). Hence, as depicted, the incident type of “Stolen Goods” may be prosecuted according to four different offenses  130 , depending on the available evidence. 
     Hence, as depicted, the offenses  130  are further mapped and/or associated with data indicative of required digital evidentiary items  131 - 1 ,  131 - 2 ,  131 - 3 ,  131 - 4  required to prosecute an associated offense  130 . The data indicative of the digital evidentiary items  131 - 1 ,  131 - 2 ,  131 - 3 ,  131 - 4  is interchangeably referred to hereafter, collectively, as the required items  131  and, generically, as a required item  131 . 
     In some examples, the association between the offenses  130  and the required digital evidentiary items  131  may be referred to as a digital offenses-to-evidentiary-items mapping  133  (referred to hereafter, interchangeably, as the mapping  133 ). 
     An example of such required items  131  is provided in the required items  131 - 4 . For example, to prosecute an offense  130 - 1  of “petty theft”, the required items  131 - 1  may include only an incident report. In contrast, to prosecute an offense  130 - 4  of “armed robbery”, the required items  131 - 4  may include an incident report and a BWC video of the incident, for example to prove that an offender carrying a weapon was present at the “armed robbery”. While details of the other required items  131 - 2 ,  12 - 4  are not provided, it is understood that the other required items  131  may indicate one or more digital evidentiary items required to prosecute an associated offense  130 ; for example, a required item for a “grand theft” (e.g. the offense  130 - 2 ) may include a summary of value of goods stolen, while a required item for a “robbery” (e.g. the offense  130 - 3 ) may include digital fingerprints of an offender that performed the robbery. Indeed the required items  131  may comprise any suitable combination of digital items. 
     As such, the term “missing digital evidentiary item”, as used herein, may be understood to include a digital evidentiary item required to prosecute an associated offense  130  and for which an indication is missing at the database  107  and/or the which may be missing from the databases  110 . Hence, in some examples, a digital evidentiary item required to prosecute an associated offense  130  may not be stored at the databases  110 , but rather may reside (e.g. be stored) initially only at a device and/or a mobile device that generated and/or acquired the digital evidentiary item. 
     Hence, in the depicted examples, the jurisdictional digital evidentiary item  111 - 2  (e.g. a video) may comprises a missing digital evidentiary item required to prosecute the offense  130 - 4  (e.g. which requires a report and a video as per the required items  131 - 4 ). Furthermore, while as depicted the jurisdictional digital evidentiary item  111 - 2  is stored at the database  110 - 1 , in other examples the jurisdictional digital evidentiary item  111 - 2  may not yet be stored at the database  110 - 1  but rather may be stored at the digital evidence collection device  115 - 1  that acquired the jurisdictional digital evidentiary item  111 - 2 . 
     While as depicted the database  117  stores one incident type  129 , with associated offenses  130  and required items  131  (and/or the mapping  133 ), the database  117  may store any suitable number of incident types with associated offenses and required items (and/or associated digital offenses-to-evidentiary-items mappings). 
     Furthermore, the incident type  129 , and the associated offenses  130  and required items  131 , (and/or the mapping  133 ) and/or any other incident types offenses, required items and/or digital offenses-to-evidentiary-items mapping may be populated at the database  117  by an administrator of the system  100 , and the like, based on jurisdictional rules for prosecuting offenses and/or causes of action (e.g. list of items required for prosecuting an offense and/or starting a lawsuit, and the like), and the like. 
     In general, the device  101  may use the incident type  129 , and the mapping  133  (and the like) to determine a missing digital evidentiary item for prosecuting an offense, identify a jurisdictional agency most likely to have access to the missing digital evidentiary item, and electronically request the missing digital evidentiary item from the jurisdictional agency, as described below. Such functionality may be implemented using machine learning algorithms, as described in more detail below. 
     The device  101  may have associated functionality for providing indications of jurisdictional digital evidentiary items including, but not limited to rendering at the display screen  103 , for an incident, indications of jurisdictional digital evidentiary items associated with the incident at a timeline in a dashboard. 
     Attention is next directed to  FIG. 2  which depicts a schematic block diagram of an example of the device  101 . In general, the device  101  may comprise one or more servers and/or one or more cloud computing devices, and the like, configured to communicate with the display screen  103 , the at least one input device  106 , the databases  107 ,  117  and the jurisdictional agency computing devices  109 . However, the device  101  may comprise a computing device such as a personal computer and/or a laptop computer, and the like. In some examples, the device  101  may be combined with the display screen  103  and/or the databases  107 ,  117 ; hence, in some examples, the dashboard device  101 , the display screen  103  and the databases  107 ,  117  may be combined in a single device. 
     As depicted, the device  101  comprises: a communication unit  202 , a processing unit  203 , a Random-Access Memory (RAM)  204 , one or more wireless transceivers  208 , one or more wired and/or wireless input/output (I/O) interfaces  209 , a combined modulator/demodulator  210 , a code Read Only Memory (ROM)  212 , a common data and address bus  217 , a controller  220 , and a static memory  222  storing at least one application  223 . Hereafter, the at least one application  223  will be interchangeably referred to as the application  223 . 
     While not depicted, the device  101  may include one or more of an input device and a display screen and the like, a microphone (e.g. to receive voice commands) so that a user, such as the reviewer  105 , may interact with the device  101 . However, a user of the device  101 , such as the reviewer  105 , may interact with the device  101  via the display screen  103  and the at least one input device  106 . 
     As shown in  FIG. 2 , the device  101  includes the communication unit  202  communicatively coupled to the common data and address bus  217  of the processing unit  203 . 
     The processing unit  203  may include the code Read Only Memory (ROM)  212  coupled to the common data and address bus  217  for storing data for initializing system components. The processing unit  203  may further include the controller  220  coupled, by the common data and address bus  217 , to the Random-Access Memory  204  and the static memory  222 . 
     The communication unit  202  may include one or more wired and/or wireless input/output (I/O) interfaces  209  that are configurable to communicate with the display screen  103 , the at least one input device  106 , the databases  107 ,  117  and the jurisdictional agency computing devices  109 . For example, the communication unit  202  may include one or more transceivers  208  and/or wireless transceivers for communicating with the display screen  103 , the at least one input device  106 , the databases  107 ,  117  and the jurisdictional agency computing devices  109 . Hence, the one or more transceivers  208  may be adapted for communication with one or more communication networks used to communicate with the display screen  103 , the at least one input device  106 , the databases  107 ,  117  and the jurisdictional agency computing devices  109 . For example, the one or more transceivers  208  may be adapted for communication with one or more of the Internet, a digital mobile radio (DMR) network, a Project 25 (P25) network, a terrestrial trunked radio (TETRA) network, a Bluetooth network, a Wi-Fi network, for example operating in accordance with an IEEE 802.11 standard (e.g., 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g), an LTE (Long-Term Evolution) network and/or other types of GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) and/or 3GPP (3 rd  Generation Partnership Project) networks, a 5G network (e.g. a network architecture compliant with, for example, the 3GPP TS 23 specification series and/or a new radio (NR) air interface compliant with the 3GPP TS 38 specification series) standard), a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) network, for example operating in accordance with an IEEE 802.16 standard, and/or another similar type of wireless network. Hence, the one or more transceivers  208  may include, but are not limited to, a cell phone transceiver, a DMR transceiver, P25 transceiver, a TETRA transceiver, a 3GPP transceiver, an LTE transceiver, a GSM transceiver, a 5G transceiver, a Bluetooth transceiver, a Wi-Fi transceiver, a WiMAX transceiver, and/or another similar type of wireless transceiver configurable to communicate via a wireless radio network. 
     The communication unit  202  may optionally include one or more wireline transceivers  208 , such as an Ethernet transceiver, a USB (Universal Serial Bus) transceiver, or similar transceiver configurable to communicate via a twisted pair wire, a coaxial cable, a fiber-optic link, or a similar physical connection to a wireline network. The transceiver  208  is also coupled to a combined modulator/demodulator  210 . 
     The controller  220  may include ports (e.g. hardware ports) for coupling to other hardware components. 
     The controller  220  may include one or more logic circuits, one or more processors, one or more microprocessors, and/or the controller  220  may include one or more ASIC (application-specific integrated circuits) and one or more FPGA (field-programmable gate arrays), and/or another electronic device. In some examples, the controller  220  and/or the device  101  is not a generic controller and/or a generic device, but a device specifically configured to implement functionality for electronically requesting and storing missing digital evidentiary items. For example, in some examples, the device  101  and/or the controller  220  specifically comprises a computer executable engine configured to implement functionality for electronically requesting and storing missing digital evidentiary items. 
     The static memory  222  is a non-transitory machine readable medium that stores machine readable instructions to implement one or more programs or applications. Example machine readable media include a non-volatile storage unit (e.g. Erasable Electronic Programmable Read Only Memory (“EEPROM”), Flash Memory) and/or a volatile storage unit (e.g. random-access memory (“RAM”)). In the example of  FIG. 2 , programming instructions (e.g., machine readable instructions) that implement the functional teachings of the device  101  as described herein are maintained, persistently, at the memory  222  and used by the controller  220  which makes appropriate utilization of volatile storage during the execution of such programming instructions. 
     In particular, the memory  222  stores instructions corresponding to the at least one application  223  that, when executed by the controller  220 , enables the controller  220  to implement functionality described herein including, but not limited to, some or all of the blocks of the method set forth in  FIG. 3 . 
     In illustrated examples, when the controller  220  executes the one or more applications  223 , the controller  220  is enabled to: receive, from distinct jurisdictional agency computing devices, indications of jurisdictional digital evidentiary items associated with an incident; determine, based on an incident type of the incident, one or more offenses associated with the incident type; determine required digital evidentiary items to prosecute the one or more offenses via a digital offenses-to-evidentiary-items mapping; identify a missing digital evidentiary item for prosecuting the one or more offenses by: comparing the indications of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items with the required digital evidentiary items; identify a jurisdictional agency, associated with one or more of the distinct jurisdictional agency computing devices, that is most likely to have access to the missing digital evidentiary item; and render, at a display screen, an actuatable option for electronically requesting the missing digital evidentiary item from the jurisdictional agency. 
     The application  223  may include numerical algorithms configured for one or more of: identifying missing digital evidentiary item; and determining an offense associated with incident types. 
     Alternatively, and/or in addition to numerical algorithms, and/or programmed algorithms, predetermined algorithms, and/or static algorithms, the application  223  may include machine learning models and/or algorithms, and the like, which have been trained to one or more of: identify missing digital evidentiary item; and determine an offense associated with incident types. Furthermore, in these examples, the application  223  may initially be operated by the controller  220  in a training mode to train the machine learning models and/or algorithms of the application  223  to perform the above described functionality and/or generate classifiers therefor. 
     For example, when the controller  220  executes the one or more applications  223 , the controller  220  may be further enabled to, in a training mode: receive, via an input device, a user-entered missing digital evidentiary item; and provide, to a machine learning training queue, the user-entered missing digital evidentiary item and jurisdictional digital evidentiary items (e.g. indications of which are already stored at the database  107 ) for training of a machine learning training model for one or more of: identifying missing digital evidentiary item; and determining an offense associated with incident types. 
     The one or more machine learning models and/or algorithms of the application  223  may include, but are not limited to: a deep-learning based algorithm; a neural network; a generalized linear regression algorithm; a random forest algorithm; a support vector machine algorithm; a gradient boosting regression algorithm; a decision tree algorithm; a generalized additive model; evolutionary programming algorithms; Bayesian inference algorithms, reinforcement learning algorithms, and the like. However, generalized linear regression algorithms, random forest algorithms, support vector machine algorithms, gradient boosting regression algorithms, decision tree algorithms, generalized additive models, and the like may be preferred over neural network algorithms, deep learning algorithms, evolutionary programming algorithms, and the like, in some public safety environments. Any suitable machine learning algorithm and/or deep learning algorithm and/or neural network is within the scope of present examples. 
     Attention is now directed to  FIG. 3 , which depicts a flowchart representative of a method  300  for electronically requesting and storing missing digital evidentiary items. The operations of the method  300  of  FIG. 3  correspond to machine readable instructions that are executed by the device  101 , and specifically the controller  220  of the device  101 . In the illustrated example, the instructions represented by the blocks of  FIG. 3  are stored at the memory  222  for example, as the application  223 . The method  300  of  FIG. 3  is one way in which the controller  220  and/or the device  101  and/or the system  100  may be configured. Furthermore, the following discussion of the method  300  of  FIG. 3  will lead to a further understanding of the system  100 , and its various components. 
     The method  300  of  FIG. 3  need not be performed in the exact sequence as shown and likewise various blocks may be performed in parallel rather than in sequence. Accordingly, the elements of method  300  are referred to herein as “blocks” rather than “steps.” The method  300  of  FIG. 3  may be implemented on variations of the system  100  of  FIG. 1A  AND  FIG. 1B , as well. 
     At a block  302 , the controller  220  and/or the device  101  receives, from distinct jurisdictional agency computing devices  109 , indications  121 ,  123  of jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113  associated with an incident. For example, as described above, jurisdictional agencies operating and/or managing the jurisdictional agency computing devices  109  may subscribe to a service offered by an entity operating the database  107  and agree to transmit indications of digital evidence stored at the database  110  to the centralized digital evidence database  107 . As such, indications  121 ,  123  of jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113 , associated with an incident, may be generated and transmitted by the jurisdictional agency computing devices  109 , to the dashboard device  101  (which receives the indications  121 ,  123  at the block  302 ), when the items  111  are uploaded to the databases  110 , and/or periodically, and the like. As has already been described, a respective indication for all the digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113  may not be received; such a situation may occur, for example, due to error and/or privacy issues (e.g. video may be designated as a digital evidentiary item that may require permission to access) and/or synchronization issues (e.g. there may be a delay between receiving some indications and other indications due, for example a delay between receiving digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113  and time for transmission of the indications), and the like. Indeed, in the example of  FIG. 1A  AND  FIG. 1B , the database  107  does not store an indication of the item  111 - 2 . 
     In some examples, the incident data  112 ,  114  is received with the indications  121 ,  123  and stored at the database  107 , as depicted in  FIG. 1A  AND  FIG. 1B . 
     At the block  302 , the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may further determine whether the indications  121 ,  123  are associated with same or different incidents on the basis of, for example, respective dates, respective times, respective locations and/or respective incident types associated with the indications  121 ,  123 . Hereafter, it is understood that the 
     At a block  304 , the controller  220  and/or the device  101  determines, based on an incident type  129  of the incident, one or more offenses  130  associated with the incident type. 
     For example, the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may determine the incident type  129  by one or more of: determining the incident type  129  from the indications  121 ,  123  of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113  associated with the incident; determining the incident type  129  from incident data  112 ,  114  received with the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items; and receiving the incident type  129  via an input device, such as the at least one input device  106 . 
     When the controller  220  and/or the device  101  determines the incident type  129  by determining the incident type  129  from the indications  121 ,  123  of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113  associated with the incident, the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may use machine learning algorithms, and the like, to determine the incident type  129  and/or offenses  130  associated with an incident type. For example, a machine learning algorithm of the application  223  may be trained to determine an incident type from the indications  121 ,  123 , and/or offenses  130  associated with an incident type based on types of items  111 ,  113  associated with the indications, and/or other data in the indications  121 ,  123 . Otherwise, the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may extract the incident type  129  from the incident data  112 ,  114  and/or the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may receive the incident type  129  via the at least one input device  106  (e.g. via the reviewer  105  typing the incident type via a keyboard and/or selecting an incident type from a menu of incident types, and the like. 
     At a block  308 , the controller  220  and/or the device  101  identifies a missing digital evidentiary item for prosecuting the one or more offenses by: comparing the indications  121 ,  123  of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113  with the required digital evidentiary items  131 . 
     For example, to prosecute the offense  130 - 1 , only an incident report may be required (e.g. as indicated by the required items  131 - 1 ); in particular, the indication  121  indicates that such an incident report is available and hence is not missing. 
     However, to prosecute the offense  130 - 4 , an incident report and a video of the incident may be required, however a video of the incident is not indicated as being available by any of the indications  121 ,  123 . As such, for the offense  130 - 4 , a video of the incident may be identified as a missing digital evidentiary item for prosecuting the offense  130 - 4 . Put another way, when a video of the incident is missing, an incident of the incident type  129  may be prosecuted only as a “petty theft”, however, if a video of the incident may be found, an incident of the incident type  129  may be prosecuted only as an “armed robbery” (e.g. presuming such a video shows an offender robbing a person using a weapon). Hence, in a particular example, a video of an incident may be identified as a missing digital evidentiary item required to prosecute the offense  130 - 4 . 
     It is further understood that, in some examples, the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may use machine learning algorithms, and the like, to identify a missing digital evidentiary item. For example, a machine learning algorithm of the application  223  may be trained to identify a missing digital evidentiary item based on types of items  111 ,  113  associated with the indications, and/or other data in the indications  121 ,  123 . 
     At a block  310 , the controller  220  and/or the device  101  identifies a jurisdictional agency, associated with one or more of the distinct jurisdictional agency computing devices  109 , that is most likely to have access to the missing digital evidentiary item. Continuing with the example of a video of an incident having been identified as a missing digital evidentiary item, at the block  310  the controller  220  and/or the device  101  identifies a jurisdictional agency most likely to have access to a video of the incident. 
     It is further understood that, in some examples, the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may use machine learning algorithms, and the like, to identify a jurisdictional agency, associated with one or more of the distinct jurisdictional agency computing devices  109 , that is most likely to have access to the missing digital evidentiary item. For example, a machine learning algorithm of the application  223  may be trained to identify a jurisdictional agency, associated with one or more of the distinct jurisdictional agency computing devices  109 , that is most likely to have access to the missing digital evidentiary item based on types of items  111 ,  113  associated with the indications, and/or other data in the indications  121 ,  123  such as identifiers of the jurisdictional agencies and/or type of the jurisdictional agencies. 
     In a particular example, a city police department may be determined as being more likely to have access to video of an incident, as compared to state police officers, as city police officers (e.g. patrol officers) are more likely to be first at an incident scene (though such a situation may also depend on an address and/or location of the incident); as such, continuing with the example of a video of an incident having been identified as a missing digital evidentiary item, at the block  310  the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may identify the jurisdictional agency associated with the distinct jurisdictional agency computing devices  109 - 1  (e.g. a city police department), as being most likely to have access to video of an incident. 
     In other examples, however, such a determination may be at least partially performed numerically. For example, the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may be configured to determine relatedness scores for jurisdictional agencies, associated with the distinct jurisdictional agency computing devices  109 , using the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113  (and/or indications thereof) and a missing digital evidentiary item. For example, the application  223  may include a module, and the like, for determining relatedness scores based on prepopulated numerical rules, and the like. Continuing with the example described above, city police department be more likely to have access to video of an incident, as compared to state police officers, as city police officers (e.g. patrol officers) are more likely to be first at an incident scene, thought though such a situation may also depend on an address and/or location of the incident. Each of these factors may be associated with a numerical rule of application  223  that may be used to generated and increase and/or decrease and/or weight a relatedness score. For example, as a numerical rule may exist that indicates that a higher score is to be assigned to a city police department than a score assigned to a state police department when a missing digital evidentiary item is a video of an incident; another numerical rule may exist that increases or decreases the scores assigned to the city police department and the state police department based on a location of the incident, for example in relation to distance of the incident from a jurisdictional boundary of the city police department (e.g. incidents well within the jurisdictional boundary may result in a relatedness score of the city police department being increased and the relatedness score of the state police department being decreased; conversely, incidents outside the jurisdictional boundary may result in a relatedness score of the city police department being decreases and the relatedness score of the state police department being increased, though such increases or decreases may be based on distance of the incident from the jurisdictional boundary). Regardless, jurisdictional agency that is most likely to have access to the missing digital evidentiary item is generally understood to have a highest relatedness score. Furthermore, in some examples, machine learning algorithms may be used to generate relatedness scores. 
     At a block  312 , the controller  220  and/or the device  101  renders at the display screen  103 , an actuatable option for electronically requesting the missing digital evidentiary item from the jurisdictional agency. 
     For example, the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may renders at the display screen  103  a virtual button, and the like, at a dashboard provided at the display screen  103 , that indicates that digital evidentiary item is missing and that may be requested from the jurisdictional agency upon actuation of the virtual button. However, such an actuatable option may be provided in any suitable format including, but not limited to, a selectable menu item (e.g. from a dropdown menu) and the like. 
     In particular, the method  300  may further comprise, the controller  220  and/or the device  101 : receiving, via an input device (e.g. the at least one input device  106 ), an actuation of the actuatable option; in response to receiving the actuation, electronically requesting the missing digital evidentiary item from a computing device  109  associated with the jurisdictional agency (e.g. the jurisdictional agency computing device  109 - 1  to request a missing video); receiving, from the jurisdictional agency computing device  109  associated with the jurisdictional agency, a confirmation that the jurisdictional agency has access to the missing digital evidentiary item (e.g. a confirmation received from the jurisdictional agency computing device  109 - 1  that the jurisdictional agency has access to the item  111 - 2  (i.e. the missing video); and updating the database  107  (e.g. and/or any other suitable memory) storing the indications  121 ,  123  of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113  to include a respective indication of the missing digital evidentiary item. Hence, for example, the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may request, from the jurisdictional agency computing device  109 - 1 , the items  111 - 2  and receive, in response, and indication thereof which is stored at the database  107 . 
     The method  300  may include yet further alternatives. For example, in some examples, the method  300  may further comprise, the controller  220  and/or the device  101 : selecting from the one or more offenses  130  associated with the incident type  129 , a first offense  130  to prosecute based on the indications of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113  associated with the incident; and after receiving the missing digital evidentiary item, selecting, from the one or more offenses  130  associated with the incident type  129 , a second offense to prosecute based on the indications of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items and the missing digital evidentiary item. Hence, for example, when only an incident report is available, the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may select “petty theft” (e.g. the offense  130 - 1 ) to prosecute; however, after the item  111 - 2  is received, the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may select “armed robbery” (e.g. the offense  130 - 4 ) to prosecute, again assuming that the video of the item  111 - 2  shows an armed offender robbing a person. In some of these examples, the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may retrieve the missing digital evidentiary item and perform analytics and/or video analytics thereupon to determine an offense  130  to prosecute; for example, when the video of the item  111 - 2  shows an armed robber, the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may select “armed robbery” (e.g. the offense  130 - 4 ) to prosecute, however when the video of the item  111 - 2  shows an unarmed robber, the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may select “robbery” (e.g. the offense  130 - 3 ) to prosecute (e.g. presuming the other required items  131 - 3  are not missing). 
     The method  300  may include yet other alternative related to rendering a dashboard at the display screen  103  and/or performing machine learning training, and the like. 
     In a particular example, the method  300  may further comprise, the controller  220  and/or the device  101 : rendering, at the display screen  103 , for an incident, indications  121 ,  123  of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113  associated with the incident, by one or more of: at a timeline; geographically; jurisdictionally; cause of action; and offense. For example, the controller  220  and/or the device  101 : may render, at the display screen  103 , the indications  121 ,  123  according to a time of acquisition of associated items  111 ,  113  (e.g. on a timeline) and/or by a location of acquisition of associated items  111 ,  113  (e.g. geographically on a map) and/or a combination thereof; in a particular example, a map showing location of acquisition of associated items  111 ,  113  may be animated by time such that an order of acquisition of associated items  111 ,  113  may appear on the map at associated locations as a function of time. In further examples, the controller  220  and/or the device  101 : may render, at the display screen  103 , the indications  121 ,  123  sorted by jurisdiction and/or sorted by a cause of action (e.g. list of required items  131  required for prosecuting an offense and/or starting a lawsuit, and the like)) and/or sorted by offense  130  (e.g. the offenses  130  may be listed with available associated required items  131  and/or with missing associated required items  131 ). 
     In a particular example, the method  300  may further comprise, the controller  220  and/or the device  101 : rendering, at the display screen  103 , for an incident, indications  121 ,  123  of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113  with identifications of jurisdictional agencies originating the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113 . Put another way, the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may render, at the display screen  103 , the indications  121 ,  123  sorted by jurisdictional agency, for example on respective timelines for the jurisdictional agencies and/or in any other suitable format. 
     In another particular example, the method  300  may further comprise, the controller  220  and/or the device  101 : rendering, at the display screen  103 , for a plurality of incidents, which may including the incident of the block  302 , respective indications of respective jurisdictional digital evidentiary items associated with the plurality of incidents at respective timelines; receiving, via an input device (e.g. the at least one input device  106 ), a selection of a given incident, of the plurality of incidents; and rendering, for the given incident that was selected, the respective indications of the respective jurisdictional digital evidentiary items on a respective timeline for the given incident, while excluding the respective indications of the respective jurisdictional digital evidentiary items for other incidents, of the plurality of incidents, that were not selected. Hence, for example, while only one incident has been heretofore discussed, the database  107  may store indications for a plurality of incidents and the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may render, at the display screen  103 , for example at a dashboard, respective timelines for the plurality of incidents. In some examples, the incidents for which timelines are rendered at the display screen  103  may include incidents that have been assigned to the reviewer  105  to review (e.g. by a supervisor and the like). The reviewer  105  may operate the at least one input device  106  to select one of the incidents and/or one of the timelines for the incidents and the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may respond by removing other timelines from the display screen  103  to show details of the selected incident on a more detailed timeline, and the like. 
     In another particular example, the method  300  may further comprise, the controller  220  and/or the device  101 , in a machine learning training mode: receiving, via an input device (e.g. the at least one input device  106 ), a user-entered missing digital evidentiary item; and providing, to a machine learning training queue, the user-entered missing digital evidentiary item and jurisdictional digital evidentiary items for training of a machine learning training model for one or more of: identifying missing digital evidentiary items; and determining an offense associated with incident types. 
     Put another way, the controller  220  and/or the device  101  may be operated, by the reviewer  105 , and the like, in a machine learning training mode to provide the controller  220  and/or the device  101  with an example missing evidentiary item (e.g. from a given list of required items  131 ) and/or indication thereof; an associated offense  130 , may also be provided by the reviewer  105 , and the like. The controller  220  and/or the device  101  may then add the example missing evidentiary item (e.g. from a given list of required items  131 ) and/or the indication thereof, as well jurisdictional digital evidentiary items (and/or indications thereof) that are not missing (and/or associated offense  130 ) may be added to a training queue to provide a machine learning model with both inputs (e.g. jurisdictional digital evidentiary items (and/or indications thereof) that are not missing) as well as desired outputs (e.g. an identified missing evidentiary item and/or indication thereof, and/or an associated offense). As such respective classifiers may be generated accordingly. Similar techniques may be used to train a machine learning model to identify a incident type (e.g. by providing the controller  220  and/or the device  101  with an example incident type using available jurisdictional digital evidentiary items (and/or indications thereof), and the like (e.g. incident data, such as the incident data  112 ,  114 ). 
     Examples of the method  300  are next described with respect to  FIG. 4 ,  FIG. 5  and  FIG. 6  which depict a subset of the components of the system  100  of  FIG. 1A  AND  FIG. 1B  with like components having like numbers. While not all the components of the system  100  are depicted (e.g. for conciseness), they are nonetheless understood to be present. 
     Attention is next directed to  FIG. 4  which depicts the indications  121 ,  123  having already been received (e.g. at the block  302  of the method  300 ) and stored at the database  107 , as described above. In  FIG. 4 , the device  101  is further depicted, determining (e.g. at the block  304  of the method  300 ), based on a determined incident type  129  for an incident, one or more offenses  130  associated with the incident type  129 . For example, as has already been described, the incident type  129  may be determined and the associated offenses  130  may be retrieved from the database  117 . 
     In  FIG. 4 , the device  101  is further depicted, determining (e.g. at the block  306  of the method  300 ), based on the mapping  133  and the one or more offenses  130 , required items  131  for prosecuting one or more of the offenses  130 . For example, as has already been described, the mapping  133  may be used to retrieve the required items  131  from the database  117  using the one or more offenses  130 . 
     In  FIG. 4 , the device  101  is further depicted, comparing (e.g. at the block  308  of the method  300 ) the required items  131  with the indications  121 ,  123  to identify missing digital evidentiary item  431 ; for example, as depicted, the missing digital evidentiary item  431  comprises a BWC video, for example to prosecute the offense  130 - 4 . 
     Attention is next directed to  FIG. 5  which depicts the device  101  identifying (e.g. at the block  310  of the method  300 ) a jurisdictional agency, associated with one or more of the distinct jurisdictional agency computing devices  109 , that is most likely to have access to the missing digital evidentiary item  431 . For example, an agency “City Police Department” is assigned a respective relevancy score of “9”, and an agency “State Police” is assigned a respective relevancy score of “3”, as described above. As the agency “City Police Department” has a higher relevancy score, the device  101  identifies the agency “City Police Department” as being most likely to have access to the missing digital evidentiary item  431 . 
     As such the device  101  renders (e.g. at the block  312  of the method  300 ) at the display screen  103 , an actuatable option  520  for electronically requesting the missing digital evidentiary item  431  from the agency “City Police Department”. For example, as depicted, the device transmits a rendering command  501  to the display screen  103  that causes the display screen  103  to provide the actuatable option  520 . 
     As depicted, the actuatable option  520  comprises a virtual button which, when actuated, causes an indication of the missing digital evidentiary item  431  to be requested from the jurisdictional agency computing device  109 - 1  associated with the agency “City Police Department”. While the actuatable option  520  is provided with specific example text (e.g. “Request BWC Video From City Police To Possibly Prosecute Stolen Goods As Armed Robbery”), the actuatable option  520  may be provided in any suitable format. 
     For example, as depicted in  FIG. 6 , the reviewer  105  may operate a pointing device, and the like, of the at least one input device  106 , to move a pointer  606  to the actuatable option  520  to actuate (e.g. “click on”) the actuatable option  520 . In response, the device  101  transmits a request  531  for the missing digital evidentiary item  431  to the jurisdictional agency computing device  109 - 1 . The request  531  may identify an incident for which the missing digital evidentiary item  431  is being requested (e.g. via an incident number, and the like), as well a type of the missing digital evidentiary item  431  (e.g. BWC video). The jurisdictional agency computing device  109 - 1  responds by searching for and/or identifying the missing digital evidentiary item  431  (e.g. BWC video), such as the item  111 - 2  associated with the incident identified in the request  531  for example searching the database  110 - 1  for the missing digital evidentiary item  431 , and generating and transmitting an indication  532  of the item  111 - 2  (e.g. identified as the missing digital evidentiary item  431 ) to the device  101 . The device  101  receives the indication  532  and stores the indication  532  in the database. While details of the indication  532  are not provided, the indication  532  may be similar to the indications  121 ,  123 , but indicating the missing digital evidentiary item  431  (e.g. BWC video). 
     Furthermore, in examples where the missing digital evidentiary item  431  is not already stored at the database  110 - 1 , the jurisdictional agency computing device  109 - 1  may, in response to receiving the request  531 , request the missing digital evidentiary item  431  from the mobile device  115 - 2 . 
     In some examples, the missing digital evidentiary item  431  requested via the request  531  may not be available and/or missing (e.g. the jurisdictional agency computing device  109 - 1  may not be able to “find” BWC video associated with the incident). In these examples, the jurisdictional agency computing device  109 - 1  may respond to the request  531  with an indication of the missing digital evidentiary item  431  not being available. 
     Attention is next directed to  FIG. 7  which depicts portion of the system  100  with like components having like numbers. In particular,  FIG. 7  depicts an example of dashboard  701  that may be provided at the display screen  103 . As depicted, the dashboard  701  comprises indications  711 ,  712  of two incidents: an armed robbery (e.g. the incident associated with the items  111 ,  113 ) and a homicide. While indications of only two incidents are provide, the dashboard  701  may include indications of any suitable number of a plurality of incidents. 
     As depicted, the indications  711 ,  712  comprise a respective timeline of digital evidentiary items received from different agencies for the associated incidents. In the given example, only general indications of digital evidentiary items being received are depicted (e.g. a date/time that digital evidentiary items were received from an agency and a number of digital evidentiary items received therefrom). The indication  711  further includes an actuatable option  720  for requesting a missing BWC video (e.g. a missing digital evidentiary item) from a jurisdictional agency that has been determined to be most likely to have access to the missing BWC video. The actuatable option  720  is generally similar to the actuatable option  520  and may be actuated via the pointer  506  to request BWC video from the agency “City Police” as described above. 
     As depicted, however, the pointer  506  may be used to select the indication  711  of the incident “Armed Robbery” to provide a more detailed timeline of the incident “Armed Robbery”. For example, attention is next directed to  FIG. 8  (which is substantially similar to  FIG. 7 ) which assumes that the device  101  has received a selection of the indication  711  of the incident “Armed Robbery” via the pointer  506 , and the device  101  has hence rendered a more detailed timeline  801  of the incident “Armed Robbery”, including respective indications of the respective jurisdictional digital evidentiary items associated with the incident “Armed Robbery”. Respective indications of the respective jurisdictional digital evidentiary items for the incident “Homicide” are excluded. 
     In particular, details of incident “Armed Robbery” have been extracted from the indications  121 ,  123  (and/or associated digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113 , which may have been requested from the jurisdictional agency computing device  109 ), and provided on a timeline. The jurisdictional agency and a respective incident number is also provided. 
     As depicted, the timeline  801  further includes actuatable options  821 - 1 ,  821 - 2 ,  821 - 3 ,  821 - 4  for rendering (and/or requesting if not already requested) associated digital evidentiary items  111 ,  113 . The actuatable options  821 - 1 ,  821 - 2 ,  821 - 3 ,  821 - 4  are further provided in association with an associated event on the timeline  801 . For example, the actuatable option  821 - 1  is for rendering an incident report of the digital evidentiary items  113 , the actuatable option  821 - 2  is for rendering an incident report of the digital evidentiary item  111 - 1 , the actuatable option  821 - 3  is for rendering BWC video of the digital evidentiary item  111 - 2  (e.g. assuming the BWC video has been identified via the actuatable option  720 ), and the actuatable option  821 - 4  is for rendering digital fingerprints of the digital evidentiary items  113 . While a particular format of the timeline  801  is depicted, the timeline  801  may have any suitable format and/or be rendered at least partially on a map showing locations at which associated digital evidentiary items were acquired, and the like; in some examples, such a map may have an animation by time option such that an order of acquisition of associated items  111 ,  113  may appear on the map at associated locations as a function of time (e.g. as an animation of the map “plays”). 
     The timeline  801  may yet include other options, for example for sharing and/or playing items  111 ,  113  (e.g. such as BWC video), and the like. 
     As should be apparent from the foregoing Detailed Description, the operations and functions of the computing device are sufficiently complex as to require their implementation on a computer system, and cannot be performed, as a practical matter, in the human mind. Computing devices such as set forth herein are understood as requiring and providing speed and accuracy and complexity management that are not obtainable by human mental steps, in addition to the inherently digital nature of such operations (e.g., a human mind cannot interface directly with RAM or other digital storage, cannot transmit or receive electronic messages, electronically encoded video, electronically encoded audio, etc., among other features and functions set forth herein). 
     In the foregoing specification, specific embodiments have been described. However, one of ordinary skill in the art appreciates that various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth in the claims below. Accordingly, the specification and figures are to be regarded in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense, and all such modifications are intended to be included within the scope of present teachings. 
     The benefits, advantages, solutions to problems, and any element(s) that may cause any benefit, advantage, or solution to occur or become more pronounced are not to be construed as a critical, required, or essential features or elements of any or all the claims. The invention is defined solely by the appended claims including any amendments made during the pendency of this application and all equivalents of those claims as issued. 
     In this document, language of “at least one of X, Y, and Z” and “one or more of X, Y and Z” may be construed as X only, Y only, Z only, or any combination of two or more items X, Y, and Z (e.g., XYZ, XY, YZ, XZ, and the like). Similar logic may be applied for two or more items in any occurrence of “at least one . . . ” and “one or more . . . ” language. 
     Moreover, in this document, relational terms such as first and second, top and bottom, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. The terms “comprises,” “comprising,” “has”, “having,” “includes”, “including,” “contains”, “containing” or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises, has, includes, contains a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. An element proceeded by “comprises . . . a”, “has . . . a”, “includes . . . a”, “contains . . . a” does not, without more constraints, preclude the existence of additional identical elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises, has, includes, contains the element. The terms “a” and “an” are defined as one or more unless explicitly stated otherwise herein. The terms “substantially”, “essentially”, “approximately”, “about” or any other version thereof, are defined as being close to as understood by one of ordinary skill in the art, and in one non-limiting embodiment the term is defined to be within 10%, in another embodiment within 5%, in another embodiment within 1% and in another embodiment within 0.5%. The term “coupled” as used herein is defined as connected, although not necessarily directly and not necessarily mechanically. A device or structure that is “configured” in a certain way is configured in at least that way, but may also be configured in ways that are not listed. 
     It will be appreciated that some embodiments may be comprised of one or more generic or specialized processors (or “processing devices”) such as microprocessors, digital signal processors, customized processors and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and unique stored program instructions (including both software and firmware) that control the one or more processors to implement, in conjunction with certain non-processor circuits, some, most, or all of the functions of the method and/or apparatus described herein. Alternatively, some or all functions could be implemented by a state machine that has no stored program instructions, or in one or more application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), in which each function or some combinations of certain of the functions are implemented as custom logic. Of course, a combination of the two approaches could be used. 
     Moreover, an embodiment may be implemented as a computer-readable storage medium having computer readable code stored thereon for programming a computer (e.g., comprising a processor) to perform a method as described and claimed herein. Examples of such computer-readable storage mediums include, but are not limited to, a hard disk, a CD-ROM, an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, a ROM (Read Only Memory), a PROM (Programmable Read Only Memory), an EPROM (Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory), an EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory) and a Flash memory. Further, it is expected that one of ordinary skill, notwithstanding possibly significant effort and many design choices motivated by, for example, available time, current technology, and economic considerations, when guided by the concepts and principles disclosed herein will be readily capable of generating such software instructions and programs and ICs with minimal experimentation. 
     The Abstract is provided to allow the reader to quickly ascertain the nature of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. In addition, in the foregoing Detailed Description, it may be seen that various features are grouped together in various embodiments for the purpose of streamlining the disclosure. This method of disclosure is not to be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the claimed embodiments require more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive subject matter lies in less than all features of a single disclosed embodiment. Thus, the following claims are hereby incorporated into the Detailed Description, with each claim standing on its own as a separately claimed subject matter.