Alabama is among the most restrictive states for disclosing body-camera footage when police kill loved ones. Surviving family members often must go to court to get access to the video, and even if successful, they usually can’t share it publicly.
The footage should be in a publicly available national database. From all bodycam’s, from all police, they shouldn’t even have a choice in the matter. If they can turn them off conveniently when they are about to do crimes, or withhold the evidence like this, they are pointless.
I mostly agree, but the video should only be accessible to law enforcement involved in that recording, prosecutors, and other possible related legal jobs, and family of those recorded. A lot of personal information could be on any given video.
The footage should be in a publicly available national database. From all bodycam’s, from all police, they shouldn’t even have a choice in the matter. If they can turn them off conveniently when they are about to do crimes, or withhold the evidence like this, they are pointless.
I mostly agree, but the video should only be accessible to law enforcement involved in that recording, prosecutors, and other possible related legal jobs, and family of those recorded. A lot of personal information could be on any given video.