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Almost 100% of frontline officers I've spoken with are all for body cams on calls.
Of course within reason, ie: on during the call itself when on scene, not 100% on all the time and invades everyone's privacy. No one needs or wants their private conversations on down time or them going to the bathroom recorded etc etc.
Body cams in, at least the big centers in Canada, are due to cost. The cost of buying 1000 body cams themselves is not the big issue, although that in itself would cost a pretty penny. Its the IT side, storage, cloud services, etc etc. The amount of data and space/servers needed to store these would be immense for a department like Vancouver, or Surrey.
It comes down to a dollars issue. Officers I know have no issue wearing body cams, a lot of them actually want to.
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