[pessimizer]

> Additionally, recording 5 hours for each incident has one significant problem: every video that gets recorded has to be stored on device during the shift (not a big problem), but it also has to be offloaded and stored somewhere for archival.Additionally, recording 5 hours for each incident has one significant problem: every video that gets recorded has to be stored on device during the shift (not a big problem), but it also has to be offloaded and stored somewhere for archival.

Does it though? The source of all your objections here is that if body cameras had a 5 hour buffer, it's vitally important that buffer be saved even if nothing important happened. It's fine if you think that's true, but your alternative is to throw out all footage after a 30-second buffer unless an officer decides that they are in an important situation, implying that the footage missed is not important at all.

How about not offloading 5 hours of video if nothing happened? That's not somehow less honorable or ethical than never recording the video at all when you know, from endless examples, that the camera will often not be turned on in critical situations.

[ethbr0]

Hypothetically, all footage from an officer, when they're on-shift, could be of interest. And it's probably fair to say that state / the public have a right to that information for some purposes.

In the interest of sanity, I think we can suspend recording for personal moments: - Bathroom - Medical - Break time (e.g. eating)

We can potentially switch to a lower-resolution / audio-only take for the vast majority of a shift. E.g. idling in a cruiser.

As someone else highlighted, what we absolutely want to record is: - Use of weapon (holster switch) - Conflict (volume trigger?) - Immediately preceding interval before camera turned off (presumably, will contain a request / rationale to disable)

Effectively, what we want to do is switch from a trigger-on to a trigger-off. Cops shouldn't have to even think about cameras. They should just work.