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The technology exists, and is improving each month. I have a family member who is an administrative LEO as is currently tasked with several others to start a pretty exhaustive process to get this rolling. A local town agency plans to implement them in February of this year.
As for cost, you cannot afford not to. In my security gig, constant camera monitoring really eliminates the majority of employee and procedure problems. It took a year or so to condition every one to the culture, but when they know somebody is watching, it is amazing how well everybody behaves and works. It also allows us to be very proactive in dealing with potential problem situations. We will probably be going to a dash mounted option for the delivery and pickup truck as well.
If I still had my commercial vehicles, I with out a bit of hesitation would have active video cameras installed in all of them. Cost is insignificant when compared to the cost of litigation for anything. Video cameras are pretty much standard on commercial construction job sites anymore . I was able to remotely watch every activity going on at job sites 100 miles away.
In the early 1980s, as a young Rescue unit driver, I was called on the carpet for a speed violation ( 75 mph, Code 3 to a traffic accident, 3 trauma victims). Chief called me in the office afterwards and threw down one of those old school round tattle tale ink cards and pointed out my "procedure violation. " I admitted to it, he grinned and told me to go tell everybody that I had got my bubblegum chewed out and the next person who got caught would be written up. That pretty much brought everybody back into " procedure compliance".
AS for having the Federal government being involved with anything local LE agencies do the answer is HELL, NO.
As for cost, you cannot afford not to. In my security gig, constant camera monitoring really eliminates the majority of employee and procedure problems. It took a year or so to condition every one to the culture, but when they know somebody is watching, it is amazing how well everybody behaves and works. It also allows us to be very proactive in dealing with potential problem situations. We will probably be going to a dash mounted option for the delivery and pickup truck as well.
If I still had my commercial vehicles, I with out a bit of hesitation would have active video cameras installed in all of them. Cost is insignificant when compared to the cost of litigation for anything. Video cameras are pretty much standard on commercial construction job sites anymore . I was able to remotely watch every activity going on at job sites 100 miles away.
In the early 1980s, as a young Rescue unit driver, I was called on the carpet for a speed violation ( 75 mph, Code 3 to a traffic accident, 3 trauma victims). Chief called me in the office afterwards and threw down one of those old school round tattle tale ink cards and pointed out my "procedure violation. " I admitted to it, he grinned and told me to go tell everybody that I had got my bubblegum chewed out and the next person who got caught would be written up. That pretty much brought everybody back into " procedure compliance".
AS for having the Federal government being involved with anything local LE agencies do the answer is HELL, NO.