re: #130 Snarknado!

Quick and dirty idea: put cameras on a two-week loop, so it’s overwritten automatically unless it’s uploaded. Require some sort of special administrative procedure to save anything by uploading it, and a warrant to examine it (unless everyone filmed consents to have it seen).

Plus penalties like what you describe.

The body camera announcement just feels a bit wrong to me. It’s too much as if this was in the “queue”, and whatever lobbyist jumped on the opportunity to push it over the edge.

I’m also doubtful that it would have much impact on this kind of incident. We pretty much know what happened in Ferguson - I’m not sure how much extra a shaky body cam video would give you, once it had been through the right-wing noise machine treatment for two solid months.