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by FireBeyond 70 days ago
Watch for Flock footage to be "unavailable"/"deleted"/"corrupt" just as often as bodycam footage is.
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Not as often; it creates friction and requires cooperation from others (or an officer with unusual skill and access, presumably).

It will absolutely happen in corrupt departments, or those involving an officer with those skills and access. But data that is uploaded is infinitely harder to erase than simply turning off the camera in the first place.

That's right. And also just like the missing epstein footage.

Because it's a social problem, not a technology problem.

At the same time, just because these instances of "missing" tape happen, does not mean that body cams and jailhouse CCTV are useless. We would not take those away. Likewise for the future drone footage

The categorization of the problem isn't an excuse to propogate and intensify the problem. The tech should not be used until the problem is resolved.