[molson]

Even the small departments in my jurisdiction have audio devices recording everything. I haven't heard whether there was anything like that here, but that could help some.

Video's even better, but only the state police and maybe 1 or 2 of the biggest counties in my jurisdiction already have those, and only mounted on the patrol cars. Officers and attorneys and judges want them though. It's hard enough to analyze suppression issues and such when you have every word recorded. When you add the extra level of imperfect memories and testimony sorting things out months later, some things can be just impossible to sort out.

Edit: There are some privacy concerns, but that can all be sorted out with appropriate state legislation. Like if you call the police for help and they come to your home, any video of that encounter would be a public record, except for the time that there's an active criminal case. But you could easily pass legislation to limit that kind of thing.