Whoever owns the camera presumably has an interest in reducing/solving crime in the area (why else have cameras?), so they would likely be happy to make the footage available to police if asked nicely, with no warrant required.

And if one sentence isn’t enough, the commit has too many changes

I would hope it modifies the original. It’s implied in the name. A function that returns all but the first item should be named something like tail or without_first_item.