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human
CMV: All Police Should Have Body Cams and The Tapes Should Be Publically Available Next Day

Every police officer should have a body cam on their person during their shifts, the cameras should be running the entire time they are on duty, and the unedited unabridged footage should be uploaded to a cloud server and available immediately or the next day at the latest. We shouldn't have to wait until September to see what happened in an incident back in March. The police are public servants and should not be doing anything questionable on duty that they wouldn't want people to see. If a police officer is arresting someone in public it is your constitutional right to film the interaction, provided you don't interfere with the arrest. The same logic should be applied to the rest of their time on duty. It should be filmed and publically available immediately. I know this view isn't perfect and I would like to hear the corner cases for why certain aspects of this should be different or modified. From where I sit as of making this post, if you are okay with officers not being extremely transparent with their actions then you are okay with them doing morally, ethically, or legally wrong things in the regular course of their duties. Please, change my view. Is there any reason police either shouldn't be recorded when working or the unedited footage shouldn't be available almost immediately.  


UPDATE:: This has been largely successful in evolving my view. I have changed these aspects of my view:: Police should still be recorded all the time when on duty in order to have evidence of misconduct and to discourage misconduct. The release of footage should only be that which is relevant to alleged police misconduct. Remaining footage should be stored when it pertains to investigations of those the police have interacted with. (So like traffic stops, criminal pursuits, investigating a crime scene, interviewing witnesses or alleged criminals) A board of elected civilians would review any footage that has been flagged for review. Flagged conditions would be things like alleged police misconduct, any footage from incidents where people police have interacted with have been injured or killed (whether by police or others at the scene), footage from police finding drugs on a person with no drugs in the system or a history of drug use or drug sales, any interaction police have with protests or protesters, and other conditions I haven't thought of but would be into question if police accounts need to be verified by the body cam footage. Individuals rights to privacy is a concern, so the public version of released footage (which again is only for flagged footage) could be either delayed until after an investigation or have faces, naked bodies, graphic wounds, etc censored to respect people's privacy.
gpt
Imagine that you are arrested and charged with a crime, but during the investigation you are cleared of all charges.  But after your release, you discover that everybody has seen your arrest on video, and think you are a creep, murderer, wife beater or similar. Is that really fair?

Or what about when cops check up on a domestic disturbance and see crying children, and drunken parents in a fight, is this really something that should be broadcast as reality-TV?