"The Fundamental Danger of a Non-Indictment is Not More Riots, it is More Darren Wilsons."

[Major Hogwash]

21. Well, President Obama is a genius, we all know that already. So, this latest proposal of his rocks.

And I am sure that President Obama had already heard about some of the reports that had come out concerning body cams used by police departments cutting down the number of complaints received by those police departments who started using body cameras with their officers.
The body cam is just an extension of the "dash cam" that many police departments have mounted on the dashboards of their police cars.
The cameras used by the police department in the city here in Idaho reportedly caused about a 50% drop in complaints about police brutality and/or misconduct.

The underlying cause for that is because the police officers had to act within the law more often than they did before their actions were being caught on video.
So, it is a win-win situation.
And since the President is a 3rd-level chess playing champion, I'm sure he saw the benefit of using body cams right away.