re: Just watched BRPD open a trucks door without owner or warrant at Chelsea's

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Why not hire a Prosecutor, Judge and ACLU monitor to ride with and watch every police officer every shift? Because that idea is just as implementable as yours. How in the hell do you think your idea gets funded? Who pays for the techs to download and maintain all that data? Who runs and manages that database? Who handles all the privacy lawsuits from people accessing footage of your interactions with an officer in your home when they are there on a complaint? As I have said before, Holder and Obama start talking cameras and people who can't think on their own parrot the idea. No one bothers to critically think beyond the basic concept to practical implementation.

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Well, I would argue that it would easily reduce court costs, and would have saved tons of businesses in the Micheal Brown situation.

The question I have is, who's paying for all the wifi and laptops the police have already? Who is servicing those laptops for their charging needs and data issues? Where are the police getting information for high tech crimes? Who's doing all the data processing to figure out crime rates and other various police tools?

It's not like the bigger police forces are collective morons about technology with zero IT departments or IT contractors. Why couldn't go-pro data be treated like regular potential evidence? It's not like the police don't understand practical evidence systems and don't already have those in place.

Instead of using actual logic about how it could work, you just throw your hands up and offer an excuse that makes the entire United States police force look like neanderthals.