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Progress Being Made As Ferguson Police Officers Are Now Wearing Body Cameras

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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on Sunday that Ferguson police officers began wearing body cameras this past Saturday. Embattled Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson told The Post that 50 cameras were donated to the police department from Safety Visions and Digital Ally in the wake of 18-year-old Michael Brown’s shooting death at the hands of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. The unarmed Brown was shot dead on August 9th after an incident that began with Wilson confronting Brown and his friend, Dorian Johnson, for jaywalking. Brown was shot six times and an audio recording from the time of the shooting indicates that Wilson fired at Brown at least ten times.
Per Jackson, the cameras were first utilized during the day Saturday due to that day’s activities. A peaceful march of at least a thousand protesters took place in Ferguson on Saturday morning. The march, which was led by Brown’s parents, started on W. Florissant Ave., where most of the protests have occurred in the aftermath of the shooting, and ended right in front of the Ferguson police department headquarters. Hundreds of protesters remained gathered near the building for much of the day, chanting and making their voices heard regarding their desire to see Officer Wilson arrested.


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I believe all police departments should have to wear body cameras, it not only brings more accountability to the department, but can be a protection against police brutality. This department definitely needs to wear cameras, hell all departments should. Only bad cops should be worried about body cameras.
 
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I believe all police departments should have to wear body cameras, it not only brings more accountability to the department, but can be a protection against police brutality. This department definitely needs to wear cameras, hell all departments should. Only bad cops should be worried about body cameras. [/FONT]

Why stop with cops? Ordinary people both commit and are victimized by crime all the time. If everyone wore a camera that would make investigating crime a whole lot easier. Just imagine how easy it would be for that bigot that claims to have been robbed by a black guy to get called on the carpet when the video shows that it was really a white guy. Hell, we could just mandate that all collected video be collected by the NSA and processed through a threat analysis program and we could stop crime before it even [maybe] happened!
 
Read more @: Progress Being Made As Ferguson Police Officers Are Now Wearing Body Cameras

I believe all police departments should have to wear body cameras, it not only brings more accountability to the department, but can be a protection against police brutality. This department definitely needs to wear cameras, hell all departments should. Only bad cops should be worried about body cameras. [/FONT]
It is going to stop a lot of false claims made against Officers.
 
Why stop with cops? Ordinary people both commit and are victimized by crime all the time. If everyone wore a camera that would make investigating crime a whole lot easier. Just imagine how easy it would be for that bigot that claims to have been robbed by a black guy to get called on the carpet when the video shows that it was really a white guy. Hell, we could just mandate that all collected video be collected by the NSA and processed through a threat analysis program and we could stop crime before it even [maybe] happened!

What an idiotic comparison.

Are ordenary citizens somehow under a contract to enforce the law and peace in their communities?!
 
It is going to stop a lot of false claims made against Officers.

It isn't going to change a thing. People who hate cops are just going to claim that the video was doctored. We'll still have the same situation we have now but with more video to bicker over.
 
It is going to stop a lot of false claims made against Officers.

That too. Are you suggesting by your omission that it won't have any effect on police behavior as well?
 
It is going to stop a lot of false claims made against Officers.

That's great, and it would have given the evidence needed to make a judgement about what happened. People like you would ignore it if it contradicted them, but still...
 
What an idiotic comparison.

Are ordenary citizens somehow under a contract to enforce the law and peace in their communities?!


How do you know I'm not going to randomly assault someone on the street? I figure that forcing me to wear a camera would be a fine deterrent to me committing a crime. I mean, hell, if I knew it was going to be recorded I'd be less inclined to be an asshole, right? That's the reasoning we're getting in this argument at least.
 
It isn't going to change a thing. People who hate cops are just going to claim that the video was doctored. We'll still have the same situation we have now but with more video to bicker over.
I doubt that there will be no change. :shrug:

And those who claim the video has been altered? Let them, such video will put a halt to their claims until they can prove it was altered.
 
It is going to stop a lot of false claims made against Officers.

"Cops are always right, they never do wrong, everything they do is justified"- Exxcon
 
That's great, and it would have given the evidence needed to make a judgement about what happened. People like you would ignore it if it contradicted them, but still...
No, that is what you would do.
 
How do you know I'm not going to randomly assault someone on the street? I figure that forcing me to wear a camera would be a fine deterrent to me committing a crime. I mean, hell, if I knew it was going to be recorded I'd be less inclined to be an asshole, right? That's the reasoning we're getting in this argument at least.

The thing is.

A cop is obliged to enforce the law. Something I mentioned in my previous post and which you either ignored or dont understand the concept of.

It means that he has to be held accountable to the highest ethical standards and has to follow these standards when interacting with the community.

Otherwise, the trust in authorities by the community is destroyed.
 
"Cops are always right, they never do wrong, everything they do is justified"- Exxcon
This isn't about me. Or didn't you know that?
Secondly. Your assertion is absurd. As it has also been said that I think Police can do no right.
So can your bs.
 
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I believe all police departments should have to wear body cameras, it not only brings more accountability to the department, but can be a protection against police brutality. This department definitely needs to wear cameras, hell all departments should. Only bad cops should be worried about body cameras. [/FONT]

I can agree that the cameras are a good idea.

On the flip side, cameras can show how some citizen when engaged by the police can be total jerks, esculate the situation, threw the first punch, ect.

So it can be a protection against false police brutality claims. Just saying.

imo, cameras can help the public as well as LE.
 
This isn't about me. Or didn't you know that?
Secondly. Your assertion is absurd. As it has also been said that I think Police can do no right.
So can your bs.

Fair enough.
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Are you suggesting by your omission that it won't have any effect on police behavior as well?
There is no omission.
Had I intended to address such, I would have.
 
I can agree that the cameras are a good idea.

On the flip side, cameras can show how some citizen when engaged by the police can be total jerks, esculate the situation, threw the first punch, ect.

So it can be a protection against false police brutality claims. Just saying.

imo, cameras can help the public as well as LE.

It can be both positives for everyone.
 
The thing is.

A cop is obliged to enforce the law. Something I mentioned in my previous post and which you either ignored or dont understand the concept of.

It means that he has to be held accountable to the highest ethical standards and has to follow these standards when interacting with the community.

Otherwise, the trust in authorities by the community is destroyed.

The trust of the police by various communities is being destroyed by a small number of bad cops and a large number of "social justice" assholes who choose to make a mountain out of every molehill they come across.
 
Why stop with cops? Ordinary people both commit and are victimized by crime all the time. If everyone wore a camera that would make investigating crime a whole lot easier. Just imagine how easy it would be for that bigot that claims to have been robbed by a black guy to get called on the carpet when the video shows that it was really a white guy. Hell, we could just mandate that all collected video be collected by the NSA and processed through a threat analysis program and we could stop crime before it even [maybe] happened!

I imagine that it will only be a matter of time before anything anyone does in public will be monitored and recorded. With technology advancing suspects and criminals will be immediately recognized by recognition software and law enforcement deployed to apprehend them. A good things for victims but not so good for our privacy.
 
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I believe all police departments should have to wear body cameras, it not only brings more accountability to the department, but can be a protection against police brutality. This department definitely needs to wear cameras, hell all departments should. Only bad cops should be worried about body cameras. [/FONT]

Good. We need to start holding our law enforcement accountable.
 
The trust of the police by various communities is being destroyed by a small number of bad cops and a large number of "social justice" assholes who choose to make a mountain out of every molehill they come across.

So every messure to silence these "social justice assholes" (whatever that is suposed to mean) and to get rid of bad apples should be welcome.
 
Good. We need to start holding our law enforcement accountable.
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Anecdotal, but it suffices.



[...]

So it is in Rialto, Calif., where an entire police force is wearing so-called body-mounted cameras, no bigger than pagers, that record everything that transpires between officers and citizens. In the first year after the cameras' introduction, the use of force by officers declined 60%, and citizen complaints against police fell 88%.

[...]

What happens when police wear cameras isn't simply that tamper-proof recording devices provide an objective record of an encounter—though some of the reduction in complaints is apparently because of citizens declining to contest video evidence of their behavior—but a modification of the psychology of everyone involved.

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What Happens When Police Officers Wear Body Cameras - WSJ
 
I wonder how long it will be until the first privacy violation complaints hit the ACLU.
 
I can agree that the cameras are a good idea.

On the flip side, cameras can show how some citizen when engaged by the police can be total jerks, esculate the situation, threw the first punch, ect.

So it can be a protection against false police brutality claims. Just saying.

imo, cameras can help the public as well as LE.

Yep, it can. It sure would make the Michael Brown thing easier to judge. We'd see him coming at the officer (assuming he did), and we'd see what happened in between the two volleys of shots the officer fired. We'd know exactly what happened, or at least would have more information.
 
No, that is what you would do.

I'm not the one who has a story and is sticking to it. Any evidence yet of what happened in between the two vollies the officer fired?
 
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