Pilot? It should be mandatory that any and all law enforcement should have working and running body cams during every interaction.
As long as there also appropriate laws and regulations on the use of biometric recognition and retention of recordings in which there is no complaint.
Honestly, i’m far more worried about biometric profiling done by fixed security cameras than recordings of me talking to a cop. Though stoping both would be nice, i’m far more worried about the cop in the present than the harassment in the future.
Subjects and witnesses ought to have a way to turn it on and know it’s on.
There are no laws against subjects and witnesses from recording an interaction with police.
But police encounters should always be recorded via dash cam and body cam, not only to hold the officers accountable, but also to aid in proving a suspect’s guilt or innocence.
There are reasonable limitations to subject and witness ability to record police.
Ie limitations on what subjects can do with their hands, and limitations on how close witnesses can get.
I’d like every police interaction to be recorded, not a system where the officer can decide if an interaction gets recorded. I also understand that police officers deserve privacy to use the toilet and fart while out and about, without being recorded by their boss.
My comment was basically if ANYONE present thinks that the interaction should be getting recorded, it should be getting recorded.