“People don’t understand how body cameras have changed the game; next thing, they’ll want them removed.”
First that I heard of body cameras was regarding a stop somewhere in the Northeast where a black woman accused a cop of being a racist bastard and had the cop terminated...until someone remembered the camera and the footage was looked at. Wound up that the cop was a perfect gentleman and the woman behaved perfectly.
The police later commented that the cameras were intended to catch racist police officers not the civilians who were framing police officers, so, of course, the woman couldn’t be charged.
A friend was saved by a bodycam a few years back when a ticketed made the same allegation against him; the accuser was more astute, and made the allegation without filing an actual report - so he couldn’t be charged with filing a false police report (though at last the cop was cleared).
As more and more wild behavior ends up on YouTube from these bodycams, I suspect those who thought it would protect them will demand they are removed; the scales fall from everyones’ eyes when the “unemployed behavior” is staring you in the face.