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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Titan's point is oft-repeated by body-cam advocates. Begin to see the problem?
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Sure I do. I just think it's a problem that's easily solvable by legislation. No, body cams are not FOIP-able on request, but are obtainable through a court-supervised process. No, body cam footage is not reviewed by third parties or anyone else unless there is an investigation into the officer's conduct or for use in a prosecution.
Obviously that's off the top of my head, but you have to think that it wouldn't be particularly difficult to come up with a regime to deal with this that doesn't allow officers to choose for themselves when they get to shut off the very thing that's there to oversee their conduct in interactions with the public.
The other, easier method is that if you're going to shut off your camera you need to declare, on camera before it's shut off, why you're doing it, and if you can't satisfy an inquiry that the shut-off was done properly and turned back on immediately afterwards, you should be severely reprimanded and on a second offense, fired summarily.
Either of those avenues would work.