[Usagi_yo]

Police are just bureaucrats with guns.

Somewhere my mind is thinking .... 'I don't think it's up to the Mayor nor the Chief of Police to determine what can be fOI or not.

[MeshugeMikey]

‘I don’t think it’s up to the Mayor nor the Chief of Police to determine what can be fOI or not.

I think your mind is 100 percent correct!

[KarlInOhio]

Unedited video better be available for all criminal defenses and all uses of violence (both lethal and nonlethal) by the cops. And no "convenient" situations where every officer's camera malfunctioned at the same time.

[Osage Orange]

I want body cams on all people that "represent" us.

The President..the Vice President...and our so called "Representatives"

[LuvFreeRepublic]

Any body cam footage of police wrong doing will likely be all over the news. IMO, the ‘lack of transparency’ is so the public won’t see how the animals behave.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Except when the video can be used to wrongfully accuse a white cop.

[puppypusher]

If the D.C. Police are not going to make that video available than why have the officers where the cameras?

The reason to have the cameras is to show the public, the People paying the checks. what the Police are doing on a daily basis, for the good or the bad. Hopefully for the good.

Those cameras should be tamperproof and should be running at all times while the officer is on duty except for those times when he needs a personal break. When that occasion occurs the officers immediate supervisor can deactivate the camera and then reactivate it after the break has ended.