Once again, if body cameras help police, why don’t they want them?
If you’d like to talk about the scope and findings of any relevant study, I would be happy to read it. But I’m not really interested in what seems like illogical paraphrasing by journalists.
You know the police have had cameras in their cars and all over the place for decades, right? If they want to wear a body camera, they will always wear a body camera. So I’m not really sure what the argument here is except that we shouldn’t make them?
There’s nothing illogical about it. Police uses body cameras because they do want to use them. Can you think of any law that was passed against police? There were huge protests demanding police reform and nothing happened. The only thing that activists “won” were the body cams. That’s because police and prosecutors find them useful. Sure, police was skeptical at first because the cameras were marketed as tool for accountability but as soon as they realized that they are actually tool for surveillance the adoption moved fast. That’s the whole point the articles I’ve linked make and you find so hard to understand.
The DEA will stop using them because Trump’s administration is incompetent and makes a lot of stupid decisions. Other agencies could stop using them but for now decided against it.
Once again, if body cameras help police, why don’t they want them?
If you’d like to talk about the scope and findings of any relevant study, I would be happy to read it. But I’m not really interested in what seems like illogical paraphrasing by journalists.
You know the police have had cameras in their cars and all over the place for decades, right? If they want to wear a body camera, they will always wear a body camera. So I’m not really sure what the argument here is except that we shouldn’t make them?
There’s nothing illogical about it. Police uses body cameras because they do want to use them. Can you think of any law that was passed against police? There were huge protests demanding police reform and nothing happened. The only thing that activists “won” were the body cams. That’s because police and prosecutors find them useful. Sure, police was skeptical at first because the cameras were marketed as tool for accountability but as soon as they realized that they are actually tool for surveillance the adoption moved fast. That’s the whole point the articles I’ve linked make and you find so hard to understand.
The DEA will stop using them because Trump’s administration is incompetent and makes a lot of stupid decisions. Other agencies could stop using them but for now decided against it.