While your idea sounds great in theory, what I believe would happen would be a stronger blue wall of science. They wouldn't report anything and would side with

While your idea sounds great in theory, what I believe would happen would be a stronger blue wall of science. They wouldn't report anything and would side with their own as not doing so could risk their family livelihood. IMO, a better solution would be to require officers to pay their own liability insurance, similar to medical malpractice. Let an indep 3rd party set rates, then you can price out the worst officers and the payouts come from the 3rd party and not the tax payers. Then the officers would want the bodycams as they would protect them. Imagine if a doctor did something wrong and said, oh whops, i guess the patients chart disappeared. They would be uninsurable after that point, same with a cop.