Perhaps they could make more if they just post them all on Youtube and monetize them [1] and thus remain transparent to the public. Even better, link the cam over wifi to the patrol car and stream to dispatch when the officer is on a call. Dispatch would then know when all-officers-available is required even before the officer calls for it and they would have a description of the perp along with their vehicle even if the officer is down. That provides 3 copies of the video/audio stream that would be harder to tamper with. Log to dispatch if the officer turns off the camera. Set up a delayed rsync the dispatch body-cam server to a public server in a DMZ that is behind a CDN so there is enough delay to notify next-of-kin.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/@PoliceActivity/videos

From the article:

> “As a society, we give police the power to shoot, inure and potentially kill us,” Daniels said. “What this language does is it allows them to hide behind the law that is going to be cost-prohibitive for someone to get videos they want.”

Police accountability behind a paywall. Go Ohio