When did police bodycams become national policy? I think it was Eric Garner or before. I remember Black activists pushing for it because of police misconduct. However, that just proved that it's not just bad police that causes these bad, even fatal encounters. Don't get me wrong, it was a great step of law enforcement transparency. There are three sides to every story: your side, their side, and the truth.
If the amount of bodycam footages disproportionately shows Black-on-cop encounters, maybe that should tell you who is most suspected of crimes and why.
I always end up unintentionally writing a fucking novel on this subject.
Fuck if I know. It had to be a slow start of better funded depts first facing a large number of people demanding police accountability and facing more and more unfounded lawsuits that were probably bleeding them dry just in civil court costs. A field LEO grade body cam costs around $500 or so, retaining an attorney for a federal civil suit? Shit, IDK has to be at least $50,000 to deal with an actual federal tort, given the fact the majority of these settle out of court that doesn't include a the settlement costs right or wrong.
Not an attorney, I have a SMALL civil/criminal background mostly due to having friends in both high and low places. An older friend who worked crim defense strongly advised me to go to law school, said I had a natural aptitude for crim defense it. My response was fuck that, 300K in debt by the time I graduate and then I work for shitheads with no money and no common sense? I'll never shut the fuck up about how people never involved in a civil suit always think they are right regardless of the facts and even if they are objectively right the legal fees/time/resources to fight in court, anything larger than small claims is often not worth it; anything smaller than 2K in alleged damages isn't worth it, either. Then, should you win and are absolved of all wrong doing and even awarded restitution or attorneys fees only part of what you have invested in hours of nonsense you still must collect that money some way some how. Al Sharpton owes a few million dollars for the shit he framed a couple of people for, never paid a dollar. That was like 40 fucking years ago? His net worth is around 10 million if I had to take a guess. Anyone following the Patrick "fat faggot" Tomlinson thread saw him sue some random guy who hosted OnA forums and even though unsuccessful, the defendant "Quasi" was left with 50K in attorneys fees and yet even further after being ordered to pay Quasi's attorneys fees for being vexatious fat faggot with no sense of humor, Tomlinson still dragged his feet for years before finally paying. Only under threat of contempt of court did the money finally show up.
For all unaware of Pat "fat faggot" Tomlinson, boil some coffee and or pop some adderal because the Patrick Tomlinson thread/lore is fucking massive lolsuit alone.
IIRC recall many PDs/Police unions originally fought the idea mandatory field body cams all while the ACLU pressured them along with other useless NGO's, they eventually caved. Then the PDs saw how fast it settled
"Da poleeze be raycis, dey fucked me up Iz dindo nothin" claims. Both claims that never went past social media/news and ones picked up by scumbag race-pimp attorneys were settled very quickly under review of unbiased audio/video and then some dept's PR people just said release the body cam with narration even for the ones that never made it beyond social butthurt. That policy took all the spin right out of "journalists" who wanted clicks more than ethics.
In the modern day I find when everyone has a 4K cellphone and there is a DVR/NVR system in every home/retail establishment the truth about some fag allegedly being called a fag comes out whether there is a police bodycam/scumbag attorney on retainer or not. 
like a retard I used to assume all cops were strait boyscouts and all detectives were Sherlock Holmes. I had to deal with them in professional context quite a few times over the years, the real game changer was having long conversations with crim defense attorneys about lack of knowledge of everything from what was actual tenants rights vs breaking and entering, Arizona V Miranda, 4th amendment procedure and one man who somehow obtained the rank of Detective I could have swore had an IQ around 80-85. Decades ago a friend of the family was an attorney who advised PD field officers on good/ bad shooting incidents. The way he explained it to my father who relayed this to me was how in court he described to them how a gunshot wound can reveal entry/body position and even the direction of limb at moment of impact and how he really had to dumb it down for them. I am no longer naive. Some are lazy and retarded, some are just genuinely bad people most are just people.
I won't objectively say any one group is always right/wrong I'll just say after watching hundreds of police interaction videos with shitheads my money is on bodycams not revealing anything we didn't already know about. The PD originally fought it, currently there is a camera on every corner, in every pocket so they can at least release the entire 40 minute full interaction showing more than the 5 seconds of slamming a belligerent nigger to the ground, passed around tiktok.
