[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.

[hanamizu]

The downside of having each cop wear a camera is how long does the cop shop have to retain the video records? The storage costs will start to cost the agency real money. A local (Missouri) police force stopped using the cameras when FOI petitioners started asking for everything and then posting the amusing ones on YouTube. One or two full-time employees were required to just process the FOI requests. This was in a small town. A jurisdiction like DC might reqiire a small beaurocracy to do the same thing.

I don’t know what the answer is, but every cop’s every day being considered pubic record is a can of worms.

[zeugma]

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.

If I were on a jury and there was supposed to be video available, and it was not, I would take anything said by the police with a healthy dose of skepticism.

If all the police had in such a case was the word of the cop, the defendant would walk.