Posted on 10/25/2015 7:47:35 PM PDT by dragnet2
Law enforcement officers from around the country say they are increasingly concerned that video recordings of their interactions with the public are being used to show them in a negative light, creating a “YouTube effect” that is affecting how they do their jobs and, according to the FBI’s director, could be behind a recent rise in violent crime.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Tough. Cops should wear recorders and bystanders should be able to record anything they see. Transparency is a virtue.
What could possibly go wrong?
“If you aren’t doing anything wrong, you don’t have anything to fear.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3346826/posts
Earlier article from wash post.
Yeah, that excuse worked for Benghazi too.
In one of my workplaces, which is more confined than law enforcement’s, a guy I work with was recorded and put on You Tube in a negative light quite a few years back.
I guess law enforcement will have to suck it up and if they feel they are being put in a negative light that is slanderous, get a lawyer and challenge the video on defamation grounds.
It isn’t helping of course, but it isn’t the “REASON”.
The Left has targeted law enforcement as part of their massive, all inclusive campaign to take down this country.
It’s another Leftist tactic to put this country into ruins so they can change it to their perspective.
Tear it down, rebuild it to their specifications. That’s their goal.
The cops in my city have car cams and body cams, and seem to be OK with it.
There’s a good story of the guy who took a traffic ticket to court, claiming the cop was being very disrespectful to the citizen. Apparently the guy’s demeanor changed greatly when the cop said “Your honor, I’d like to offer this body cam video as evidence.” The video showed who was disrespectful to whom, and it wasn’t the cop misbehaving.
I am as pro-cop as it gets.
But people in public using their PDAs to record what happens when cops execute their duties in public are fair game and protected by the 1st Amendment.
Whatever happens, happens and the more exposure, the more transparency.
Yes, some angles or edits may change the context, but so far it isn’t the content but rather the interpretations (like the brats that tried to crash the pool party and then sassed the cop) that are the problem - blm is the problem.
The problem with these videos is that people don’t start recording them until they notice something is “happening.” What led up to the “something” in the time before the witness took notice of it, got his phone out and started recording is never clear.
What’s that line they use...”If you’ve done nothing wrong...”
It’s not a problem, it’s just information that’s incomplete. More information is better than less.
Bloody shirts well predated modern electronics, let alone You Tube. Nothing new here.
If the integrity and reliability of “the system” is so low that this can pull it out of shape, something larger is wrong than “leftists.”
If you don’t have anything to hide?
The “Washington Times” is GOPe media and I guess they want to use the anti-law enforcement atmosphere created by the Left as an emotional wedge issue to get us to vote for Republican Establishment politicians in 2016.
LABOR UNIONS THAT REPRESENT LAW ENFORCEMENT ARE MORE LIKELY TO ENDORSE REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT POLITICIANS IN THE PRESENT ANTI-LAW ENFORCEMENT ATMOSEPHERE.
I think the Dems realize this. A wreath was laid at the grave of the NYPD officer killed the other day by none other than Al Sharpton himself.
But I will not be sucked into voting GOPe under any emotional push over any emotional issues any more.
Why can’t POLITICIANS have body cameras?
You are exactly correct in your thinking.
The left wants to change America into their utopia.
There has always been a devil and somehow God did not regard this as any excuse.
Incomplete information in any legal matter is a problem.
Sharpton offed an officer? (OK, I know that’s not what you mean here, just kidding)
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