[South40]

I have a GoPro and I use it often both in my car and on my motorcycle. I do so not because I am worried that someone might want to watch me but because I might one day want or need proof of what someone else might do. Also, I have spoken with two motor officers I know who have them and they love them. That in no way says all cops would, but the two I know were very happy to have them, as am I.

Cameras could protect cops and citizens, and I have no problem with that.

[Clump]

You are one of the good cops I refer to in my post no. 3.
Thanks for the good work.
We need more out there like you.

[Swordmaker]

Cameras could protect cops and citizens, and I have no problem with that.

It strikes me that body cameras might not show much. Chest or shoulder mounted cameras in an altercation might be too close and just show blurred scuffling or even black screen if pressed against body parts or clothing. Ear mount?

I do think it might be good protection for officers to have a miniature Blutooth wide-angle video and sound camera mounted on their firearms, possibly built into their laser sights—they make them small enough now—that activates automatically whenever the gun is withdrawn from the holster and records to a secure remote digital system—preferably away from the patrol car—until it is replaced into the holster.

That way the officer has an complete record to show that the shoot is a righteous shoot. No quibbling about "was he charging and attacking, or running away, standing, or kneeling with his hands in the air when shot ever again!" You would not be placed in the limbo of "he said, but the perp/witness/anyone else said" after the fact. The recording would tell the unvarnished truth, good or bad.