There is a growing perception that body cameras, now generating millions of hours of footage, are there less to keep tabs on police, and more to keep tabs on the public.
Body cameras are spreading fast through American policing, and they're generating an ocean of video. Axon, a company that provides secure cloud storage for police departments, says it's received more than 4 million hours' worth of video uploads from its clients.
Almost without exception, those videos are controlled by the law enforcement agencies that created them. Some are now challenging that practice and proposing alternatives.
Alex Vitale, director the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, argues it's not.
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10 comments:
Absolutely not.
The purpose is to watch over us - the population
Just like the cops say "if you don't have anything to hide".
These cameras will never happen in OC. The police there don't want anyone to see what they are'nt doing.
They are paid for with taxpayer funding and should be released with a FOIA request!
Absolutely not. Should employees in a secure building have access to and potentially edit or erase CCTV footage? Of course not. Same thing.
Speaking of what OC police aren't doing... I saw a video on the drag racing during the Cruise In and I would swear that was a police car, with lights flashing behind the two cars getting ready to take off.
Those body cameras aren't working out so well for the ghetto dwellers is what this is all about. Now the whole story is caught on tape as opposed to what the ghetto dwellers just want people to see. The bottom line is the police just need to not get involved and let the ghetto dwellers blow each others brains out and whatever else they do because nothing will ever be good enough for them until they decide to start acting like human beings and not some losers right off the boat from some jungle somewhere.
If you don't have anything to hide then it's ok to hand over your privacy? Is that the rationale? Because that is total garbage.
They are public SERVANTS, as in "do what we tell you to do when we tell you to do it".
WE pay them (their check doesn't fall out of some magic sky bucket).
WE, THE PEOPLE are their masters and if we want that video as public property (which it is), then thats how it should go.
It's indicative of the cop mindset that THEY think they tell US what they will or will not do.
I love it when other commenters repeat what the cops love to say ....
If you aren't doing anything wrong, then why worry about any 'rights'.
According to them, the law really doesn't apply to them.
Their arrogance is not suprising, but still is disgusting. they have forgotten their place, too.
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