Without it being a CRIMINAL OFFENSE to turn off body cams, you have no teeth. If it is not uploaded to a public server accessible to the public easily, it is a fiction of little use as video is lost, erased, or unreadable. If not on from start of duty to end, from patrolman to chief of police, corruption and criminal behavior will continue. So until we address these three issue, there is zero value in body cams other than to get the sheep to calm down and follow orders.

How about getting everyone else to wear cameras? Then citizens will have their own evidence to show in court and review before hand. #GoogleGlass4All (this may sound stupid...but maybe something similar might not be a bad idea?) I have met a few officers. Some are just and truly trying to uphold the law with integrity. But some are on a complete power trip. I know a few (personal acquaintances included) who have joined the Force only to "kick some ass". They're like enabled nightclub bouncers. Cameras might be a short term solution but there are a pervading problem that needs to be dealt with in the long run: there's no doubt their job is dangerous, and any average citizen might pull a trigger too soon when they feel their life threatened. The problem is that THEY ARE NOT AVERAGE CITIZENS. They are SUPPOSED TO BE TRAINED to deal with extremely stressful situations and be calm and collected. Apparently the police training in this is SEVERELY LACKING, and people die as a result. Solution: training should be more rigorous, more realistic, and there should be higher standards for graduation so you don't get mindless brutes that now have a gun. Who does the psych test for some of these guys anyways? What we need are intelligent, articulate, officers who have demonstrated being cool, calm and collected under fire (and some are like this...but a lot are not). It should be the citizen as the one who is untrained, not the officer.

Just like what happened and causing outrage. You can't have prosecutors enforcing laws on cops because they are on the same team! He was cleared because the prosecutor skewed his vision. Where are the phantom 911 call that got them to the scene? How abut the 7-11 camera footage? Dash Cams? The other offiicers cam? Seems like the media doesn't care about the freedom of information act? Can citizens ask?