State Legislators Pushing Bills To Shield Police Officers From Their Own Body Camera Recordings
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More and more police departments are equipping body cameras on their officers in hopes of trimming down the number of complaints and lawsuits filed against them.
Meanwhile, the public has taken police accountability into its own hands, thanks to the steady march of technology -- which has put a portable phone in almost every person's hands, and put a camera inside most of those phones.
So, we have two entities viewing accountability from seemingly opposite directions. Over the years, many officers have made it clear through their actions that being filmed isn't something they're comfortable with. This has resulted in additional misconduct and abuse of existing laws to shut down recordings. But what are these officers going to do when a city council -- or worse, a Memorandum of Understanding with the Justice Department -- directs them to start generating their own recordings?
One answer has already been presented by the Denver Police Department. They simply won't activate the cameras.
Meanwhile, the public has taken police accountability into its own hands, thanks to the steady march of technology -- which has put a portable phone in almost every person's hands, and put a camera inside most of those phones.
So, we have two entities viewing accountability from seemingly opposite directions. Over the years, many officers have made it clear through their actions that being filmed isn't something they're comfortable with. This has resulted in additional misconduct and abuse of existing laws to shut down recordings. But what are these officers going to do when a city council -- or worse, a Memorandum of Understanding with the Justice Department -- directs them to start generating their own recordings?
One answer has already been presented by the Denver Police Department. They simply won't activate the cameras.
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Cop Forced Woman To Manufacture Meth Under Threat Of Arrest
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Sheriff's deputy Grady Keith Concord was just sentenced after pleading guilty to extorting a woman to manufacture methamphetamine using pseudoephedrine he stole from the sheriff's office evidence room.
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This statistic is astounding!
American police killed more people in March (111) than the entire UK police have killed since 1900
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Don't bother adjusting for population differences, or poverty, or mental illness, or anything else. The sheer fact that American police kill TWICE as many people per month as police have killed in the modern history of the United Kingdom is sick, preposterous, and alarming.
