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Should All Police Have to Wear Body Cameras?

Should All Police Have to Wear Body Cameras?

  • Yes

    Votes: 61 83.6%
  • No

    Votes: 8 11.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 4 5.5%

  • Total voters
    73
Should you have to wear one for your work? If not, then why should others?

People dont die or have their rights abrogated with my job. Not yet anyway :mrgreen:
 
YES. All police should have to wear cameras. Oh My God YES!
 
Should you have to wear one for your work? If not, then why should others?

You can't be ****ing serious...

Because police are authorized to use up to and including deadly force against citizens of the United States of America and no other job entails that. That's why. :roll:
 
Only if all suspects must wear them as well. Why should the word of the arrested count without video back-up but not the word of the arresting officer?

I like how you tried sarcasm there... :lol:
 
Only if you're going to force all people everywhere to wear them. I trust the police a lot more than I trust 99% of the population.

Straw Man... 99% of the population is not out forcing citizens to comply to their orders...
 
You can't be ****ing serious...

Because police are authorized to use up to and including deadly force against citizens of the United States of America and no other job entails that. That's why. :roll:

Well, everyone is authorized the same as police, but no other job is similar to theirs.
 
That's true. Cops wearing cameras tends to protect the cops more than anyone else.


And that is very good for them... it would help the public trust them when they make claims, to be honest.
 
Well, everyone is authorized the same as police, but no other job is similar to theirs.

Bartenders and teachers can use deadly force to get a person to comply to their orders? Seriously... ? Didn't know that.

I now have much more power than I Thought. ****ing kids are dead meat tomorrow...
 
Bartenders and teachers can use deadly force to get a person to comply to their orders? Seriously... ? Didn't know that.

I now have much more power than I Thought. ****ing kids are dead meat tomorrow...

Cops can only shoot in defense, same as everyone else.
 
Cops can only shoot in defense, same as everyone else.

With guns maybe... tasers, bean bags, rubber bullets and tear gas at the drop of a hat. And the issue wasn't about just deadly force, it was about power over the public. Nobody can stop you but a cop. Nobody can get a search warrant or hand cuff you but a cop. Nobody can demand you do a DUI check or stay put but a cop. Don't listen? Hand cuffs. Taser. Shooting. The self defence and just ifcation come later. THAT is why they need cameras.
 
With guns maybe... tasers, bean bags, rubber bullets and tear gas at the drop of a hat. And the issue wasn't about just deadly force, it was about power over the public. Nobody can stop you but a cop. Nobody can get a search warrant or hand cuff you but a cop. Nobody can demand you do a DUI check or stay put but a cop. Don't listen? Hand cuffs. Taser. Shooting. The self defence and just ifcation come later. THAT is why they need cameras.

I agree with that. But they are no more "authorized to kill Americans" than any other citizen.
 
I agree with that. But they are no more "authorized to kill Americans" than any other citizen.

I said that, "police are authorized to use up to and including deadly force against citizens of the United States of America and no other job entails that. " I did not say that they are "authorized to kill Americans", at least not in the thread of the argument that you are debating... ;)
 
Of course the police should wear them.

They already have them in their cars, why not on their person?

I suspect the majority of the police officers against it will be those with something to hide (corruption and/or incompetence).
 
Straw Man... 99% of the population is not out forcing citizens to comply to their orders...

Sure they are, through their votes, where they put the system in place. Or didn't you get that? :roll:
 
Should All Police Have to Wear Body Cameras?

Yes and the video should be streamed to a 3rd party where it is screened and stored in multiple sites.There should also be cameras in the cop cars to capture difference angles inside and outside the car. That said I find it hard to believe the word of a cohort and alleged 3rd party witness.And I seriously doubt a cop would just unload his gun on someone for no reason.
 
Only if all suspects must wear them as well. Why should the word of the arrested count without video back-up but not the word of the arresting officer?
The officer's camera would serve the same purpose.

Besides, pretty much nobody believes the suspect already anyway, whereas too many people naively believe the police at face value just because they're the police. Cameras don't do anything to enhance anybody's credibility.. What they do is expose wrongdoing, with a side-benefit of confirming illegal actions by the suspect (when applicable).
 
Police department have enough money to stockpile military grade weaponry and armor but can't provide cameras....hmmmm
 
Send all the cops back to the classroom to read just two words on the board "BE HUMAN" and then dismiss the class.
 
Um, actually cops force citizens to comply with the laws, not "their orders".
Not necessarily. Police are increasingly ordering people to stop filming them, and there are no laws that prevent people from doing so.

Unaware of any laws, but the vast majority of jurisdictions have no such laws. Point stands that the vast majority of the time, if not at all times, the police are issuing orders to stop filming that they have no legitimate authority to do.

Just one example.
 
Not necessarily. Police are increasingly ordering people to stop filming them, and there are no laws that prevent people from doing so.

Unaware of any laws, but the vast majority of jurisdictions have no such laws. Point stands that the vast majority of the time, if not at all times, the police are issuing orders to stop filming that they have no legitimate authority to do.

Just one example.

Telling people not to do something they have a right to do isn't part of a policeman's job description, and they aren't arresting people for it. Policemen are hired to enforce laws, not make them up as they go along or enforce their own orders.
 
Telling people not to do something they have a right to do isn't part of a policeman's job description, and they aren't arresting people for it. Policemen are hired to enforce laws, not make them up as they go along or enforce their own orders.

Watch the video below. After they roughed up their suspect, they chased his brother into a house without a warrant and arrested him - for videotaping them. This happended here where I live and until heavy pressure was applied from the public, nothing was going to happen to the police officers involved.


 
Watch the video below. After they roughed up their suspect, they chased his brother into a house without a warrant and arrested him - for videotaping them. This happended here where I live and until heavy pressure was applied from the public, nothing was going to happen. It happens.




I know it happens. It isn't the norm and it isn't what they were hired to do, and it isn't what most of them (900,000+) do.
 
If a community wants to have them, sure. But only if it includes audio.
 
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