The footage should be in a publicly available national database. From all bodycam’s, from all police, they shouldn’t even have a choice in the matter. If they can turn them off conveniently when they are about to do crimes, or withhold the evidence like this, they are pointless.
I mostly agree, but the video should only be accessible to law enforcement involved in that recording, prosecutors, and other possible related legal jobs, and family of those recorded. A lot of personal information could be on any given video.