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Probably not but won't you think of the children?

It would take the incident from "he said/she said" to video evidence. Why wouldn't that work?

Are you interested in the statistics or in knowing if I know any?

I hate camera proliferation but, judging by the YouTube plenty of bodycam footage, it does work.

You won't likely find the numbers you want because the very nature of the problem is that cameras make visible something that wasn't.

Even if the situations are noticed and seen fully, does it cause the schools to not punish the victim? The stories I've heard about zero tolerance policies were that _even when the situation was fully obvious_, victims got punished because they took part in an altercation.

The video evidence is just one piece of the puzzle that is needed to help administrators properly adjudicate conflicts, and to help the public hold the administrators accountable.

If the rot is so deep that even who was right and who was wrong does not matter, then that is a separate issue that members of the public need to sort out with each other.