Right.
Should cops be allowed to confiscate video they find inconvenient? Nope.
Should cops who do so anyway be punished by loss of job, fines, and possible jail time for tampering with evidence> Yup.
If they do so anyway, assuming (generally accurately) that they will simply be able to lie their way out of the mess they’re in since the evidence has “accidentally disappeared,” would it be handy to have the evidence backed up where they can’t get at it? Seems logical to me.
Thats my thought as well. Put cameras in their cars and on their person. They can’t work without them functioning properly. They have no access or control over them. Not them or their supervisor or their chief.