I never saw promise in body cameras. The organization they were meant to make accountable is the same organization that gets to edit the video, gets to turn the

I never saw promise in body cameras. The organization they were meant to make accountable is the same organization that gets to edit the video, gets to turn the cameras on and off, gets to refuse to release them, gets to release them at the most opportune time, gets to, and gets to "lose" them if there's no way to scrub their misbehavior. If that weren't enough to know how useless they'd be, we'd had dash cams for t least 20 years at that point (since Rodney King? I can't remember honestly, but mid-1990s anyway). Nothing improved. No less abuse, no better outcomes. We had already run the experiment, but collectively decided that the results were wrong. So, why did we bother to camera up all the cops? Because intelligence agencies wanted millions of cameras out there the feeds from which they could watch. They wanted mobile cameras, not fixed. And we're still 20 or 30 years too early for the robot revolution. It had to be meat drones.