One bad apple on ANY police force is one bad apple too many.
COP CAMS would prevent many or ALL of these sorts of tragedies. (To be effective, these devices MUST be “ON” during the entire shift and any officer whose device fails to capture the event under investigation or attempts to defeat the device should be summarily dismissed.)
IF THE OFFICER IN THE MICHAEL BROWN SHOOTING HAD WORN A COP CAM, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, THIS INCIDENT WOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN SETTLED and Ferguson, MO wouldn’t be burning every night and Al Sharpton and the other racist agitators would have to get REAL jobs (if they could find them).
And let’s all remember that even cops and elected officials have families, any one of which could become the victim of the senseless act of some rogue cop who’s having a bad day and wants to pass it on.
Ferguson police dept. has been granted monies for cameras and other tech devices but they haven’t installed them yet.
1. - I wouldn't categorize police officer Darren Wilson as a bad apple.
On the contrary, the more we learn the more it seems he is a good cop who was just doing his job and faced a deadly confrontation precipitated by Michael Brown.
2. - Wouldn't the use of COP CAMS be an issue to be addressed by the local government and the policie department rather than the individual police officer?