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Munu

(216 posts) Sun Dec 21, 2025, 04:17 PM Dec 2025

Something I'm wondering about police body cam footage.

Is there someone who has to watch it all every day, or save it and only watch when there's an issue that needs to be resolved?

What provokes this question: I'm noticing a lot of police body cam footage showing up in the news and there are even YouTube channels of nothing but. Seems like a civil rights violation to me, and I don't mean the cop's.

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Something I'm wondering about police body cam footage. (Original Post) Munu Dec 2025 OP

No Cirsium Dec 2025 #1

The whole point of body cams was for general oversight of police interactions EX500rider Dec 2025 #2

I get the privacy concerns are serious, but I sometimes think we'd be better off if everyone wore a body cam, Silent Type Dec 2025 #3

Cirsium

(3,943 posts)

1. No

Reply to Munu (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 04:36 PM

Dec 2025

No and no. And welcome to DU.

EX500rider

(12,583 posts)

2. The whole point of body cams was for general oversight of police interactions

Reply to Munu (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 05:48 PM

Dec 2025

Making them private would negate that .

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)

3. I get the privacy concerns are serious, but I sometimes think we'd be better off if everyone wore a body cam,