A body camera would have proved that Officer Darren Wilson acted in self defense.
Be careful of what you wish for.
A lot of LAPD were issued those and they seem to of unplug them broken the internals sorts of stuff so I would imagine compliance will be an issue
i got a call yesterday from an agency saying they have contracts for software systems to work with body cameras and are looking to staff up.
my guess is they are going to use the agitation from ferguson to push more monitoring systems... and another reason they’ll need $260m ...
just another way to bilk those of us footing the bill
No. Not the REAL “Ferguson problem” at any rate.
Video evidence will never convince the racist malcontents, but it will convince a judge of a policeman’s innocence.
No amount of evidence will change these people’s minds. It’s not about evidence or truth.
I see Eric Holder on TV right now talking about stopping racial profiling by police. That’s a flat out denial of the facts and the truth.
After the grand jury’s decision the president called for peaceful protest. That’s denial of the facts and truth. He should have told those people to go home.
holder and obama WANT a war among Americans. They need it.
Ferguson is about ignoring the truth.
Will Body Cameras Solve the Ferguson Problem?
The answer is no. The reason I say that is because there will not always be a clear camera angle of whatever is happening.
In this case, with the physical confrontation which happened, the camera would have been bouncing around. So the camera image would not have been clear. Also, assuming the camera is on the front of a policeman’s shirt, or lapel, pointing outward, the struggle for the gun which happened between Brown and Wilson would not have been shown on camera at all.
Unless the camera is at the best angle to record an entire encounter between cops and suspects, there will always be room for complaints that the camera didn’t show the entire incident, or complaints that the camera angles give a misleading view of what happened.
And if camera views of an incident are unclear or inconclusive or an entire incident is not recorded, then Sharpton and his ilk will still bitch about racism anyway.
No, because the “Ferguson Problem” is, in reality, leftists attempting to further an agenda through a false racial narrative.
Remember the Rodney King tape?
We now know that the entire tape was never shown to us on TV. The media edited and showed us only the worst parts of King getting beaten by cops. Though available, the tape of the entire encounter was never shown to the public. That entire tape showed that police were not able to subdue King with less forceful methods than the beat down shown on tape. We only saw the final events and liberal media types did that to make a political statement about racism among cops way back then.
So the existence of a video tape will not necessarily solve anything.
A security camera in the convenience store pretty well established that Michael Brown wasn’t really a gentle giant, and that is ignored.
Solve? No. Greatly reduce? Yes. It’s working in other places, that neutral view removes a lot of doubt.
I have been told by both criminal prosecutors and defense attorneys that because of police car video systems, DUI prosecutions are down, but the conviction rate is up. LEO can’t lie about what happened and as result, prosecutor are less likely to prosecute a bad arrest. On the other hand, defendants are more likely to plead guilty when the videotape shows them staggering and slurring their way through the field sobriety test.
No.
The video will simply be edited to show what the left wants, just like in the Rodney King arrest.
If physical evidence did not convince them, why would video evidence convince them? It’s not about right or wrong. They can’t make a go of it and they want to blame someone.
Body cameras will not make a shred of difference because these people do not care about the facts.
Haters gonna hate, no matter the facts.
I wonder if Sharpton bought a lot of shares in TASR the other day.
Expert testimony, witnesses that corroborate what happened, and a grand jury that competently looked at the evidence, didn’t seem to matter to these morons.
Actual camera footage will just invite a whole new level of crazy fools to double-down on the stupid narratives they concoct to defend thugs.
How will body cameras stop thug criminals from robbing convenience stores or stop ferals from “rioting” and destroying others’ property? This is complete BS from an anti-American traitor, Clown Prince nobama. Mainly, this degenerate is creating a crisis which he then uses to usurp local control. Has he been arrested yet for his many crimes?