Talk:Ricardo "Bjork Stalker" Lopez Tapes (Full 18 Hours Recorded in 1996)/@comment-62.211.249.220-20140831190354/@comment-68.108.136.53-20140929183536

I don't think any of this footage was publicly available until around 2007. Obviously it was distributed to certain people (like the documentary director). Apparently though, the FBI will release footage of crimes being commited, if the footage shows that commiting that crime is a bad idea. I'm not positive about this though. Anyway according to Wikipedia, the Hollywood Police Media Department is no longer releasing this particular footage. So I'm not sure if it was them or the FBI that was releasing it to individuals before. Either way though, it seems that it wasn't "leaked" by some officer. It's part of these organization's policies to release this kind of stuff at times i guess.

There are some documentary filmmakers talking about obtaining the footage here: http://www.thedocumentaryblog.com/index.php/2007/01/15/the-video-diary-of-ricardo-lopez/