In my opinion, any time police are accused of anything, or an officer’s word is challenged in court, and they don’t have bodycam footage to back up their side, they should be automatically disbelieved as a matter of course. If it means a few criminals get off because of legitimate hardware failures, so be it… if the entire case was riding on police testimony, it wasn’t a strong case to begin with.

I mostly agree, but the video should only be accessible to law enforcement involved in that recording, prosecutors, and other possible related legal jobs, and family of those recorded. A lot of personal information could be on any given video.