$2,000 per camera?
Why is it every time a government does something, they spend money like it isn’t theirs?
While I agree that governments have a talent for wasting money, I think there’s a little more to it than that.
While the line item may speak to a “camera” the cost is a bundle per line item. It includes licensing, Software as a Service, redaction utilities, and most importantly the unfathomable amount of storage that is required to store all the data. The storage is also redundant across multiple data centers and has to meet stringent federal CJIS policies which a limited number of cloud services provides can meet.