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Aren't US cops afforded any personal input? I've been stopped in the UK for something I probably should have been arrested for, but the cop said he was just going to let me go because I was nice to him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I've worked with a few police departments in a previous life. For the last few years I worked with the bigger dept they all wore cameras for their entire shift. They still let people go for small amounts of weed, or odd drinking violations (open intox usually) even though it's still illegal here.

They only review the videos if there's an incident or complaint. So it's not like there's someone watching 40 x 8 hour videos every day.

/this is a smaller rural area in the midwest US, so ymmv but these officers do use discretion and the higher ups don't care if it's nothing big. In the Chief's words, "we were all young and stupid at some point."

> They only review the videos if there's an incident or complaint. So it's not like there's someone watching 40 x 8 hour videos every day.

Right now there isn't, but some day, a computer might be able to do it.

Then you would write a law.

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