If LAPD or US cops have nothing to hide then why not have their privacy invaded by perpetual recording cameras (while they are on duty)? I mean... unless they have something to hide or doing things they shouldn't like violating the law?

Because of the Pareto Principle, and risk of data pollution. More is not always better. If it works on the altercations, you can always expand the recording later, but recording all boring day all the time will not make us safer IMHO

Whoosh!

Why waste tax payers money on idiotic tech that will protect the racist cop?

For answer, refer to question.

"No your honour, I didn't deliberately put my finger over the gun-mounted camera for each of the 378 times I fired my service weapon this week. It's just a habit to hold it that way and collaterally a tragic blow to the monitoring of excessive police violence."

STFU. Today's whine-meme is *beta*.

i.e. mission accomplished as money has changed hands and the original requirement still stands. Sounds like a win to me.

So, updating the original post to take into account your (and GGP's) comments:

This sounds positive, but it won't capture what happened before the tazing. I'll be impressed when the[y] apply it to handguns and rifles so you can see, for instance, if a cop who claims he is "defending himself" actually was taking carefully-aimed shots from 150 ft with a handgun or rifle at someone running the other way.

It seems to me that it would be paralytic to law enforcement.

In the same way that 24/7 surveillance of the general population by CCTV and the police is paralytic to us?

The police should be called on their mandate "to protect and serve" and have their actions recorded and put into the public domain for all to see. No good (for society at large) can come of secrecy.

In-house is always more cost-effective when repeat work is needed.

The perp's audio will be like an excerpt from any conversation on "Talk like a pirate day"...

Your bike weight 4oz? What's it made of? Probably not carbon steel or aluminium, I'm thinking.

They start recording before the taser is fired.

"Your honor, the perp threatened my life one nanosecond before recording started so I felt I had to taze him to death for the sake of the children."

Anything but always-on is subject to exploitation by the police or indeed those in the process of being judged and executed.

Also, the police don't go out on 24/7 shifts. They go out on 8 hour shifts.

Aren't they authorized to taze citizens in their downtime (e.g. on the donut run after work and when cruising ?) If so, maybe the battery should be able to cope with the daily amount time they are able to taze ppl?

Your bias is making my browser non-horizontal.

I'm sure they'll both get over it.