Here in houston a tv station khou is showing that these body cameras are not being turned on till after a incident. Should cops be fired for not turning on body cameras or deleting or editing its contents??

I think it should be treated as a very serious offence.... That is a form of manipulating evidence and should be treated as such.

They should be allowed to turn them off when going to the bathroom or when having coffee.  Otherwise they should be on all the time

I think a three strike rule would be best. First offense? A furlough without pay. Second offense ? Disciplinary action. Third offense ? Fired.  Same kind of rule I use here. But to just fire them outright wouldn't be the proper course of action.

I would assume there is a department policy on this and a parallel guide for discipline associated with it.

I think they call that "attempting to pervert the course of justice."  Arrest their arses.  We have them being worn here to, another waste of tax payers money.

Dear Otis,

I would go about the situation in a whole different way...if the police force needs body cameras, then the wrong people are being hired.

Recruit truly the very best people for law enforcement, give them the finest, state-of-the-art psychological, ethical/moral training...

...and then do away with the cameras.

I don't think they should be able to be turned off.
I think they should automatically record, and upload to a central server, constantly.  And I think the only people with authorized access to the server should be the civilian "police oversight" committee (or whatever it's called in the jurisdiction).