The equipment matters if you want to store it locally, sure.
On the numbers above for a laughably small agency, we'd need 140TB worth of hard drives to sustain a 30 day video log, and employ someone to install and maintain a secure intranet.
A quick visit to newegg puts the math at ~$9500.00 per agency for hardware alone, and ~$50k a year to install and staff it. Now multiply by Louisiana's 350 leo agencies.
Is the thread now really ending up with "don't use the (almost) free military gear that lasts decades, but go out and spend ~$20mil/year on this instead?". sheesh. I told people that this thread would end up positive and productive. I hate being this wrong this early in the morning.
First off, I never said anything about "don't use the (almost) free military gear that lasts decades, but go out and spend ~20mil/year on this instead." In fact I never said we should do this right now. I also never said that having the gear was a bad idea. What I said was that I feel it is a good idea but the tech isn't there yet. The same tech that could take that 32 GB per officer down to a manageable number, extend battery life and make it to were there was no added stress to an already stressful job.
I get the feeling that you feel if someone doesn't agree with you 100% when it comes to your view on LEO matters, that they are 100% against LEOs. That is kind of the point of discussion forums is to discuss with others that have more knowledge than you about a subject to expand both view points. I understand that you gave us your view point on your personal experience with current technology and were not thrilled by it, while also showing that it backed you up when someone was claiming something false about you. I also understand that I do not have first hand experience with either being a police officer or wearing a body camera and that is why I joined the discussion.
I know you don't know me but if you did you would know that I am not the kind of person who tries to tell others how to do their jobs or that they are doing them wrong, so if it came across as though I was doing that, I apologize. I do want to say thank you to you and all the other LEOs on here that do go out and put you lives on the line everyday for what amounts to peanuts.