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Except they have full control over those cameras and the footage they record.
Anytime there’s misconduct they just refuse to release the footage or they turn off the camera.
We should have civil rights organizations be in charge of the footage.
Make them automatically upload to ACLU servers.
Police brutality plummets.
Except even when they are filmed nothing happens, they just get paid leave or shuffled to another department.
Before video evidence became a thing, almost 0% of police brutality would face any consequences. With video, its now non-zero, should be ideally at 100%, but getting the statistic away from 0% is a great start. The murderer of George Floyd would've walked away without video evidence. When there's more cameras, the odds of punishment is better than without cameras.
That’s a fair point, I’m just skeptical how much of a difference a new tech gadget can make on systemic issues.
At least then the victim's family can get a wrongful death payout. It would be even better if they abolished qualified immunity.
And it works just like when people plead the fifth. I.e., immediately under suspicion.
Our cops here are increasingly being questioned when their cams aren't 'on' as it's procedure to turn them 'on' - they are on but not storing, and when activated they immediately dump the 30sec buffer to disk and then write new stuff - and anything that goes down a little hinky means they're directly on the hot seat.
You guys need to pay your cops more, and get a better class of applicants.