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> If its just the officer turning it off when entering a bathroom, all good

Why even allow them to turn it off for this? The footage will be automatically overwritten or deleted at one point anyways.

With great power comes great responsibility, and if you're not ready to sacrifice a bit of your privacy in order to be able to legally murder people, maybe you shouldn't be the one who gets put in that position.

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I tend to agree; the more reasonable "sometimes you need to turn it off" scenario for me is witnesses/victims of some crimes may refuse to talk on-camera. People wanting to talk about a corrupt cop, for example, may not want that talk going into the evidence server somewhere... Rape victims may not want their face and intimate details going somewhere it might be copied and passed around for laughs.

But don't you usually take those people with you to a station, in order to take a proper statement? Or that happens on the scene directly after the fact? One would think they'd at least get to go to a hospital to do a check before they have to talk with law enforcement.

Not necessarily; plenty of initial information gets shared at the scene.

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