Posted on 11/13/2015 6:10:42 AM PST by Michael van der Galien
Cleveland has a huge reduction in complaints about police misconduct. The reason? Accusers now know that police officers are wearing body cameras.
"Larry Jones, who is overseeing the body camera implementation for the city, told members of City Council’s Safety Committee that between January and September 30, the department’s Office of Professional Standards received 225 complaints against officers – down from 374 during the same period last year."
The cameras have been fully deployed to front-line officers in all the five districts since September. Since then there have been much fewer complaints about police misconduct. The main reason? Suspects are at their best behavior when they know officers are wearing body cameras. After all, they realize that they can’t make any accusations against them if everything is recorded.
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As another FReeper pointed out, blacks will be the first people to call for an end to the police body-camera program. They will reveal the truth that most of us had known but many of them deny...
Looks like best behavior is a two way street.
I’ve no doubt a few cops have been more successful in curbing their impulses. But it’s also hard to make a complaint when there is video proof you weren’t abused.
Don’t the police ALSO know that they are wearing cameras? If this kind of crap is what passes for logic these days, it’s really no wonder we’re so screwed.
If this is the kind of logical jump that you are prone to making, the only ‘shocking myth’ here is that you’re qualified to pontificate on this subject.
Funny how the story changes when Dindu Nuffin is on camera!
And then there are morons like UNT journalism dean Dorothy Bland, who flat out lies and then doubles down when presented with video evidence of her lies and slander.
Both were happening. Abuse and false complaints. Now there are less of both. Good news.
Like the mother of a Dindu Nuffin perp in court: “You mayun have seen him do it but if’en he said he didn’ do it, he didn’ do it”
I was in court and heard this myself.
I want one of those body cams, not for law enforcement but to prove that the big fish really DID get away, and that I skied a NASTAR giant slalom course without crashing, and that I really DID try to get called upon at Chris Christie’s townhall meeting, and that I really DO pray...
Even after the video was released, she had defenders here on FR.
Agreed
Buy a GoPro. I used them on my Motorcycle for a cross country trip a few years ago. I would post some of the sequences on my web site at night so my wife and kids could see what I was doing. A pretty cheap way of doing it.
Shocker: cameras force some police to change many decades of behavior.
Not all succeed and that is why we have so many donutwatch threads.
I was wondering why you copied me on this. Then I saw your name.
I don’t even remember what we were fighting about.
Don’t hold grudges. Don’t try to draw people in arguments with other people. Don’t try to gang up.
If you felt like you won, that is great. You won an argument on the internet. Good for you.
This kind of tag on a post is really a baby move that a bully does.
I must have really gotten into your head.
Please leave me alone.
It’s preemptive spin. Used to get ahead of the “Police are better behaved because they’re wearing bodycams” spin that’ll come from the Left.
In reality it’s a combination of both.
As another FReeper pointed out, blacks will be the first people to call for an end to the police body-camera program.
Make that the second, because police and their unions are first in trying to stop body cams.
Why is that?
Don't the police ALSO know that they are wearing cameras?
Add to that fact that many jurisdictions allow officers to activate and deactivate the cameras at will.
LOL, you sound like a mental case.
The underlying philosophy, officials have said, is that officers and the public alike remain on their best behavior -- and citizens are less likely to file false complaints -- when they know the interactions are being recorded. .
Weekly, if not daily, stories appear about a certain segment of our population becoming physically confrontational over mostly imagined slights.
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