Worth every penny, and far from a large expense for cop budgets.

The LAPD cost more than 50% of the ENTIRE LA budget. Just the cops. Everything else combined costs less than one department.

If that footage is safe/secure/available and makes these murderous thugs think twice about pulling the trigger, then its worth twice the price.

Yeah this should cost less than half that per patrol.

Even for a small town, the yearly budget is likely in the millions of dollars. 60k/year shouldn’t be a crippling expense.