Moviemistakes

This is a major step in the right direction to prevent police misconduct. Next steps: abolish civil forfeiture nationwide, mandatory body cams, etc.

If_you_say_so

Agreed. I lived in Sanford fl, and even though it wasn't the police who caused the problem, they all started wearing body cams. Not to mention I never had a bad interaction with them

catechumen

The bodycams seem like a great idea and they do reduce complaints, but the cops just turn them off, or they miraculously malfunction when the want to go rogue.

rollinstone123

  1. They shouldn't be able to be turned off.

  2. There should be safeguards on the cams that they beep or alert the department/officer if they malfunction/stop recording.

catechumen

Wholly concur. I think they also need to be head-mounted to capture the officer's actual perspective as well.

Ulluses

It should effect the case, if the cams aren't on then it benefits the criminal in court. It'll let people off who don't deserve to yes, but no if they are well maintained and used correctly. It should be similar to a cop moving a piece of evidence at a scene, a fuck up that cops are well trained not to do because it helps the defence in court.

nearly-evil

A police department near where I live, mostly a low income area, removed the dashcams from all of their cars. The reason? Almost every complaint against an officer, when they went to view the tape it was found to be missing or "unreadable". They removed the cameras to prevent the missing films from being used as an excuse by lawyers in court.

mr_skeltal

I think we can all agree that this is positive, it's usually poor people that police steal from because they don't have the time or money to deal with getting it back.

catechumen

It's slightly better, they still want your stuff though. Highway men.