I've never actually had a positive experience with a law enforcement officer since I was a child and I have never been arrested or committed a crime.

I don't think cameras will even fix anything.

 

Hope you don't like exercising your constitutional rights.

 

sounds good to me

 

I find hilarious how things are here compared to this debate. I just heard of a new summer fad here. Basically people are taking bets to see who has the guts to go out and randomly assault cops. With no reason, just for the hell of it.

And people say the cops have too much power on their hands.

 

Hrm. For those people saying camera's would 'make no difference, because Cops are all bad' without Police society would degenerate into... well Missouri.

Law Enforcement isn't perfect by any means, but the world without it would be a terrible terrible place. So any attempt to improve accountabilty must be welcomed and encouraged.

 

Q: Why are cops assholes?

A: With John Q. Public being who they are, do you blame them?

 

Hahahahaha, you just expressed support for excessive use of force.

 

Pretty much.

Honestly, like Tikgnat said, this is a step towards a more accountable, and hopefully less corrupt police force, and people seem to be against it because the police force is unaccountable and untrustworthy. Hmmmm...

 

It would violate way too many privacy laws

 

Yes, and anytime a suspect is analyzed? Camera goes on.

 

Can you tell me of an interaction one would reasonably have with an officer while maintaining an expectation of privacy?

There are no privacy laws that this would violate. Cops do not have a right to privacy while on the clock. Citizens interacting with cops don't have a right to privacy as they're interacting with other people. That's not private, you don't have a reasonable expectation to it, privacy laws do not apply.


Cameras would solve a lot of problems. I'm all for it. If we can spend a billion dollars on a joint strike fighter that still doesn't work, we can afford cameras for cops.

 

I know right?

What I learned from all of this is this:

Everybody did everything wrong.

 

And expressing one's beliefs in a completely legal format is...Darwin award worthy? Like underwater Beej is?

Right, so maybe we should put some planning into it, instead of pushing away ideas and turning a blind eye towards the problem. Maybe cameras aren't the solution. Maybe cops are just people, after all. But hardly does that mean that anything proposed involving trust get immediately pushed aside. I dunno, it seems a little ignorant on the opposer's part.

 

Which somehow include breaking into stores, looting, setting fires, etc? They've gone way past their constitutional rights in that regard, and that is typically when shit gets shut down. There is a difference between freedom of assembly and rioting, and more often than not it starts in the right and ends in the wrong in cases like this.

As for privacy violations with the cameras, I think it's a privacy violation to be profiled too. So why not stop that then too?

 

Speaking of Cameras and how video can change the situation - Here are some of the witness reports that the man charged the officer. The man did NOT surrender with his hands up.

Mulitple autopsies confirm he was NOT shot in the back. He was shot multiple times in the torso ( center mass) and the head. The forensics match up with someone charging at someone.

Again perfect situation for a camera as the mom is still stating to the press that her son was "murdered" by being shot 10 times in the back.

A Witness Conversation Unknowingly Captured at the Scene of the Ferguson Shooting is a Game-Changer

 

Can we have a source that isn't so blatantly biased?