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Originally Posted by C2C3PO
The reason they don't use body cams is because of the cost.
You might think that any major force should be able to afford several thousand cameras but it is not that.
Most if not all are required to retain the data on all those cameras for 8+ years.
The sheer volume of data, and the server infrastructure, and the back ups to that infrastructure is what they don't have funding for.....
Soon enough a relatively reasonable expenditure ends up ballooning into a massive amount plus having to hire a separate sub-section of the agency's IT Dept just to handle this aspect of things.
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So no cameras because if you do you have to keep the data for 8 years. yeah that makes a lot of sense. Don’t buy it, every phone call, text and web activity is already stored. Sounds like a police union excuse.