Cops don’t make decisions about body cameras. Administrators make those decisions. It isn’t the storage that is the expensive part. It is creating and certifying a new “system of record”, then setting policy on how long the videos must be stored, and administering public access outside the court system. It doesn’t take long for that to add up to real money in a budget.
Well hey, I vote that they forgo that extra tank and indulge on the expense required for us slaves not to have to trust their internal review judgements when they gun us down.
And by the way, what you described is not expensive. Because besides giving up the extra tank, coming up with a review schedule can easily be paid for by dumping the crisis intervention training no one is using anyway. You want to know what the ROEs are for cops? 1. Do you feel nervous? If so, 2. Empty your service weapon into whoever is twitching. 3. Collect medal, vacation and paycheck 4. Get promoted.
“It doesn’t take long for that to add up to real money in a budget.”
So because the budget is tight, citizens get to die and never have the truth about their death brought out in public. Maybe that new MRAP could be taken out of the budget if money is the issue.