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What are your thoughts on the possibility/probability of all police/public interactions being required to be recorded? What legislative hurdles remain on a sta

• einhverfr 14y ago
  Not going to happen. There are a large number of hurdles to reach the "all" threshold. These include: * undercover work will not be recorded at all times * technological limitations. Two officers on foot. Where is the camera, for example. Also storage might be a bit of a problem. * possibilities for abuse. for example, officer has concealed camera, visits your house, looks at the footage later to find a bong or something he didn't see the first time around, uses it to get a search warrant. * what frequencies are recorded? Do we include near-IR for night vision? Do we include FLIR-type coverage? At what point does the video itself implicate the 4th per Kyllo? I think the best we can hope for to start with is traffic stops. It might be possible eventually to require a cameraman on site when a search warrant is served. but there is a lot of police work where a lot of this may not work so well.