[maxerickson]

With the police unions fighting it every step of the way.

I think the effort is better spent making the equipment reliable and easy to use, and then making it widely available. Then when an officer chooses not to use it, you can ask them why they made that choice. People might believe lots of things the first few thousand times, but eventually it will make the officer look pretty bad if they walked into an adverse situation without their documentation device running.

I also sort of like that this preserves some discretion for the officer; if I can't trust them to have a reasonable amount of discretion, I don't think I can trust them at all, and I don't think technology is going to help me with that.

[thaumasiotes]

> People might believe lots of things the first few thousand times, but eventually it will make the officer look pretty bad if they walked into an adverse situation without their documentation device running.

This isn't some hypothetical about the future. What you describe is very common today, with no loss of credibility having attached to the police.

[maxerickson]

No, I'm pretty sure police don't have universal access to (reliable, effective) recording devices.

I'm also pretty sure that large segments of the population don't trust them at all.