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Wonder how that happens when your file is full of citizen complaints. This guy should have been fired long ago. Now instead they get to write a nice check. This is why people don't trust cops. No real critical self policing going on. None. Must have dashcams and body cameras on every cop everywhere and tampering with them should be a serious felony. In cities that have added body cameras civilian complaints have fallen by over 70%.
have to figure body cameras would be a great learning tool for cops too- ability to review real-time situations without the bias of being recounted by a person. learn what does and doesn't work in different situations.
The proliferation of smart phones is basically going to force them to use more cameras themselves. Or they're going to be the ones always on the wrong side of the video.
Not likely with that video. I guess anything can happen in a courtroom ... but that would have be one crazily stilted jury to see the cop's side after viewing that video.
We'll send you the bill. I'm going to guess you want a system where you can't tamper with or delete the video. That'll run you about $5k per officer just for the in car camera - the Panasonic Arbitrator 360.
They have enough money for tanks though...
I'm guessing that is going to be cheaper than the million(s) this guy gets in a lawsuit.
I wonder if their liability insurance company would subsidize the investment. You'd have to think the cameras would cut down on police misconduct.
They have been shown to pay for themselves in the form of vast reductions in use of force complaints. It's a no brainer.
How about they just see about trading in some of the tanks for some cameras...that would probably get them a couple anyway
They also pay for themselves in reduced litigation. I'd file far fewer Motions to Suppress car stops/searches/confessions if there was video contesting my client's version of events. And in other cases prosecutors would be quicker to concede error rather than defend bad cops if the video showed my guy was right.
I must say that the guy who was shot was very enthusiastic in going for his license. Guess he was trying to be very cooperative and then ends up getting gunned down. So nice to see that this cop is being put up on aggravated assault charges.
He would not have received the millions without the camera system so this camera system just tacked on millions to the price of it. That's a hidden cost of the systems....and I am for the systems.
It's terrible, but isn't it actually easier to move on from considering its on video and the cop clearly was at fault.
One of the many crazy things about this is that the victim was so enthusiastically compliant - probably because he was afraid of being yet another black guy shot by cop. The speed with which he followed directions is what freaked the cop out.
You don't know that that's the case, and in fact it may well not be. He pulled into a gas station, which may itself have security cameras; it also seemed to have witnesses.
No, not in the short run. And also not in the long run for any departments that hire itchy trigger fingers.
Of course, this camera also helped put an armed, murderous thug behind bars. That's probably worth spending money on if you are supposed to be a law enforcement agency.
Is it cheaper than settling law suits? Is it cheaper than the loss of public trust? Guns aren't cheap we get them. Cars aren't cheap we get them. Everybody seems to know the cost of everything but most people know the value of very little.
Cops are some of the worst shots. Reports I read say most shootings happen within 15 feet of the target and most of the time the cops miss them.
Some of the other posts say it was for "seat belt violation", but that's hard to call since the guy was getting out of his vehicle at a gas station. It's hard to still have on a seat belt and exit the vehicle at the same time. Luckily for the victim, the cop was a bad shot.
in the video, the cop was leaving the gas station and then threw it into reverse to go after seat-belt guy.
I believe the story is he unbuckled his seatbelt as he pulled in and that was the reason. Pretty ticky tack though.
If this is true wow.
I just assumed you were white because of how crazy you were.
