Comment Re:Will the cameras work? (Score 1) 643
There will be nothing to "retain" nor "verify", if a cop wraps a piece of chewing gum around camera's lens and microphone hole for a few minutes...
Other than the video showing the cop putting chewing gum on the lens
There will just be a string of "unexplained malfunctions" nationwide, which the manufacturers will be at a loss to explain...
Except for the video mentioned above explaining what happened clearly
It may be possible to get it to work, yes, but it is going to be a lot harder, than the Senator realizes...
There are multiple OSS libraries that already are capable of detecting most of the ways the camera could be obscured, especially as something as trivial as the input going dark which you could do very simply, and basic motion detection would also catch it
Or Prosecuting Attorney: Officer, why do we have a video show you putting gum over the lense of your camera 5 minutes before this shooting occurred and taking it off 10 minutes after? Whats that? You're going to be found guilty of the crime you're charged with? Yes, we understand that, guess you shouldn't have obscured the camera eh?