More than the police politicians need to wear body cameras

CNN ^ | 5/3/2015 | Tanzina Vega

[GilGil]

Washington has a new answer to growing concerns about police brutality: body cameras.

After a series of controversial -- and deadly -- confrontations between law enforcement officers and minorities, the Department of Justice is launching a $20 million pilot program to implement body cameras nationwide. The department will spend another $1 million to study the impact of cameras. Meanwhile, cameras are being backed by members of both parties, with Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton calling them a tool to "increase transparency and accountability." In March, Sen. Rand Paul, a GOP presidential candidate, and several Democrats introduced a bill to establish a similar grant program for body cameras.

[GilGil]

Wonder what a body camera on Obama would reveal?

[BuddhaBrown]

Police cause harm or not on a very direct physical level.

I would think the analogous requirement for the conceptual social police world of politics would not be cameras but rather lie detectors.

[jsanders2001]

> Wonder what a body camera on Obama would reveal?

Only scripted selfie bits with long time lapses. All the good stuff wouldn’t be recorded. Only hidden cameras would produce the good stuff...

[jsanders2001]

> I would think the analogous requirement for the conceptual social police world of politics would not be cameras but rather lie detectors.

Pathological liars will pass them every time because they have no feelings of guilt or remorse. Polygraph machines work by detecting physiological changes brought on by stress from them. It wouldn’t work.

[Darth Airborne]

Nail on the Head!! GilGil,

Check out this!:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/03/prof-who-accused-cop-profiling-flunks-dash-cam-test/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork

BAACK! FIIIIRE!! Libbie!!