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What if all cops wore cameras? California town's success echoes to Ferguson.
CSMon ^ | November 22, 2014 | Daniel Wood

Posted on 11/22/2014 7:55:08 AM PST by CharlesOConnell

Rialto, Calif., has seen a major decline in complaints of police violence since putting body cameras on it police. The technology has also helped resolve situations like the one in Ferguson, Mo.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cameras; police
Before Trayvon Martin was killed, I saw a young man—not wearing a hoodie—walking down my street, jerking his head to the side as he passed every car, to scan the contents. (I wish I’d had the presence of mind to video him.) His head motion was so extreme, I wanted to yell “You’re going to hurt your neck.” It happened to be such a bad neighborhood, we stopped calling the Sheriff when we heard gunfire because they never came. There were streets nearby that were so bad, the Police were never seen to drive there, Crack-Head Central Station. But if an Officer had been present, he would have had probable cause to stop the young, head jerking man.

It will be useless for Police to all have cameras, if they are aren’t equipped with sound recording. When Police make a stop, the live video-sound feed should be broadcast on the web, so everyone can see and hear exactly what certain communities think is appropriate treatment of civil authorities. No one gets to hear what pregnant women who are, admittedly, unjustly beaten, are saying to the Officers, whether they are being civil or possibly there are some extenuating circumstances because they’re deliberately provoking the Officers.

In the Trayvon Martin case, the unspoken ethos of the Hoodie is, “We’re victims of racism, so it’s out right to wear clothing which is itself, explicitly, in-your-face crime paraphernalia, it’s our right to take selfies brandishing weapons, displaying gang signs, flipping off the camera, smoking ganga and generally promoting an anti-social ambiance, it's our right to rip you off, and if ‘white’ society objects, too bad, ‘Honkie’ ".

An Anti-Ethos of Permanent Victimhood.

"The Best Revenge is Living Well" is nowhere to be heard, nothing about sleeping in the nest you yourself make.

This is a continuation of the O.J. Simpson “the Bitch Got Hers” mentality, a continuation of self-evoked rage from the Rodney King beating.

But innocent Black children are the ones who end up suffering the most, having to grow up outside a decent environment, mostly because of the Hoodie Anti-Ethos.


1 posted on 11/22/2014 7:55:09 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
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To: CharlesOConnell

I’d go farther than this. The actions of so-called “public servants” (who have much stronger privacy protections than “public” citizens have when acting in official capacity) properly belong to the public, and should be available for public review. “The just powers of a representative government derive from the informed consent of the governed.” So those actions which were taken on the public’s behalf where the tapes can not be found, or where the emails can’t be located, should be presumed nefarious, and those responsible for the acts or for the destruction or loss of tapes or emails should face criminal penalties in the event of wrongdoing, without the benefit of the doubt - a benefit that could have been established by the tapes or emails. Lois.


2 posted on 11/22/2014 8:03:29 AM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: CharlesOConnell
A Newton, NJ police officer was arrested on accusations that he unzipped his pants and exposed himself to young male drivers during “numerous” traffic stops. Here's the LINK, but fortunately no vidio.

The gays have infiltrated police forces, and why not?

3 posted on 11/22/2014 8:05:39 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: CharlesOConnell

If all police have cameras the unintended consequence just might be that people behave better. Not that I like the “everyone’s a spy” world we live in, but the concept of law and order for everyone is so far gone it might be the only way to prevent chaos.


4 posted on 11/22/2014 8:07:00 AM PST by grania
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To: CharlesOConnell

This push, which almost all think is a good idea, will u,time tell fail, because of all the requests to open the videos to the public. If the law can be changed to limit the release of these videos to only hose cases involving legit court cases, then it has a chance to work. Some idiots just want ALL the data so they can out it up on ad supported sites, so anyone can see the entire video. People’s privacy be damned.


5 posted on 11/22/2014 8:17:18 AM PST by SengirV
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To: CharlesOConnell
But innocent Black children are the ones who end up suffering the most,
having to grow up outside a decent environment, mostly because of the Hoodie Anti-Ethos.

Brought to mind a picture seen earlier this morning...

Look what they are doing to her, wrapping her in self-imposed chains of victimhood.

6 posted on 11/22/2014 8:18:20 AM PST by kanawa
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

“A Newton, NJ police officer was arrested on accusations that he unzipped his pants and exposed himself to young male drivers during “numerous” traffic stops. “

Yet another example of the fact that New Jersey is this country’s toilet.
Just read where half of that state’s residents would leave if they could. I guess they are so effing poor, thanks to their government, that they don’t have the means. When your nearby choices are NY, PA, DE, or MD, it doesn’t really make sense to try and leave.


7 posted on 11/22/2014 8:52:02 AM PST by vette6387
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Complaints would drop in part because cops would mind their P’s & Q’s, but ALSO because people would stop making false complaints of police misbehavior when they get a traffic ticket.


8 posted on 11/22/2014 8:53:32 AM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Fort Worth Implemented this due to accusations. Texas had two DPS officers fired with charges placed against one when they conducted a search for drugs with no justification, which included a female trooper putting her hands inside the women’s pants. Nothing would have happened without the video.


9 posted on 11/22/2014 8:57:32 AM PST by rstrahan
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To: SengirV

As I remarked in an earlier thread, this has already begun in Missouri. A local agency has been sued under Freedom of Infornation Act/Sunshine Laws to release all videos so that they can be examined for entertaining YouTube purposes. The police estimate it will take three full-time employees to comply with the requests. Result: the cameras are being removed, even though the police like them.


10 posted on 11/22/2014 9:26:18 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Bingo! A lot of cops want these cameras. False accusations against police are commonplace.


11 posted on 11/22/2014 9:30:31 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: coloradan

Body cameras for all elected officials and agents of the state.


12 posted on 11/22/2014 9:34:34 AM PST by drunknsage
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To: CharlesOConnell

If I were a police officer, I don’t think i’d be thrilled at having every moment of every working day taped. And can Dunkin Donuts survive?


13 posted on 11/22/2014 9:36:27 AM PST by sphinx
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If I were a police officer, I don’t think i’d be thrilled at having every moment of every working day taped. And can Dunkin Donuts survive?

Nobody wants to be looked at the whole time they are working - in the case of cops and politicians, I'm all for the mandatory cameras because people under scrutiny tend to be more obedient to the laws they either foist off on us or are supposed to enforce.

14 posted on 11/22/2014 10:40:33 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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