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Police get called to a lot of very nasty calls, and see a lot of things that people calling would really rather not be public by default.

Naked people at 2am who just ran a robber off (or are on drugs), domestic violence calls, child abuse calls, welfare checks where people are definitely not okay - and sometimes where people have been rotting for days or weeks in the heat.

Not to mention traffic accidents and crimes with decapitations, dead kids, dead pregnant women, and numerous combinations of the above.

Also, cops need to use the toilet too. And need to talk to people that don’t want others to know they are talking to the cops.

They already get geotagged.

I’m not saying body cam footage should be inaccessible if there is a legitimate reason, but the public is very quickly going to be unhappy if their law enforcement agency posts all their body cam footage on the Internet - or allows anyone else to do the same.