Posted on 09/13/2014 2:41:30 PM PDT by jazusamo
That's a good thing (tm).
Put one a street department guy, and all you get is a picture of a shovel handle and arms across the chest as they watch the work get done.
Put one on a legislator, and you get PPV quality video.
Yeah... I like body cams for public employees.
/johnny
I have nothing against police having body cams, it’s just sad that we’ve come to the point they’re a necessity.
The body cams work both ways.
I thought we had all agreed that it is racist to release evidence against a black person when they file a grievance against a white person?
I like body cams. It lets everyone know which boys in blue deserve respect and possibly a raise, and which ones need a needle and a dirt-nap.
/johnny
Amen to that. If that’s the way an “award winning journalist” operates we’re worse off than I thought.
Bump
I probably missed the explanation, but if all he is doing is ‘securing’ the station, wouldn’t it have been best to turn the lights on for that large room? Or maybe the three of them just arrived before the officer did.
Even personal observation means little. My local LE are great to me... maybe not so much to others. I don't see everything, before the bodycam.
/johnny
***Yeah... I like body cams for public employees.***
Reminds me of an old Playboy cartoon from the late 1960s.
A reporter, with a small video broadcast camera strapped around his neck, lens pointing down, leaves the Mens rest room.
Other employee rush to him yelling...JOHN! JOHN! YOUR BROADCAST CAMERA IS ON!”
That part was not covered that I read and I would have turned on a light.
All public employees should have body cams. Such as Lois Lerner, so a record of what was on her computer screen when she hit “send” would have been recorded. There is no secret to why police have to wear them, shooting citizens (including innocent citizens) at the rate they do. That said, lying about an incident so as to falsely play the race card seems like a firing offense, and I’m glad the officer both was decent and also had a body cam to exonerate himself and show the world what actually happened that night.
As soon as I read that, yes, I could see where it was heading. I am not a conspiracy nut, but this one conspiracy, I DO believe in, that there is a democrat/media conspiracy to foment racism and division, by putting forth the myth: white people=bad and racists. Minority people=good and tolerant. Screw them.
Strangely enough most of his follows on Twitter are bay area police departments.
/johnny
I completely agree and have posted that exact suggestion in this forum over the last several years. Up to and including false accusations of rape, murder, and other such crimes.
Plus, I would also double the sentences (whether for false accusations or for true accusations of actual crimes committed) for government agents, and triple them for facially hypocritical government agents, such as when drug enforcement officers are found to have been selling or doing drugs.
No discipline for the cop....not a nickel for the fireman or the kids.
Hanged by the neck until dead. As an example to the others.
Sure would change the attitude of the DMV types.
/johnny
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