Ed Baker Ed is a retired major crimes detective with over 27 years of law enforcement experience with the Tacoma Police Department, located in Washington state. He was responsible for the creation of the department’s first forensic video analysis unit and was one of the first of nine in the world to become certified as a forensic video analyst.
With over 25 years of video forensic experience his company provides expert video forensics services to Federal, State, and local law enforcement throughout North America. His services involve working with prosecutors, attorneys and other experts who do not have a technical understanding of video encoding and yet rely heavily on video evidence to form their own conclusions, opinions or develop presentations regarding comparisons, human factor performance, speed estimations, gait analysis and more.
Ed also serves on the cadre team as a core instructor for the Law Enforcement and Emergency Services Video Association International (LEVA.org) certification program. There he is involved with teaching three of the four weeklong certifications courses. Ed has developed and instructs a 3 day on-line advanced video examination course tailored specifically for investigators and analysts who work routinely with video evidence.
Over his 40-year career Ed has co-designed and contributed to the development of several video forensic software and evidence management programs used worldwide. He has consulted with Axon, Ocean Systems, YottaGeek and other companies in the development of video and image software used in the examination and analysis processes.