That gives its director discretion to release recordings that reflect well on the agency’s image while working to keep others secret, experts on body camera policies said. Body camera policy allows withholding some videoThe policy requires officers to activate cameras during routine enforcement activities, including while making arrests, executing search warrants and responding to emergencies. In Chicago, a police watchdog agency routinely releases body camera video of shootings and other serious use-of-force incidents within 60 days. “And if you look at the data, body cameras actually exonerate agents more than they, you know, provide evidence of wrongdoing.” Houser said the Trump administration should have equipped officers with body cameras when it expanded mass arrests and traffic stops.