Police like nothing better than to have it come down to a credibility contest between them and someone they have arrested. They know this is a battle they can win almost every time in front of jurors. A few years back, a local police force began videotaping field sobriety tests on DWI arrests. They quit doing so after a few months, because in too many cases what they wrote in their reports was not backed up by the tape.
There is a simple way to keep police honest, and that is to make them record. If a person is really guilty, it will reinforce the case for the prosecutor.
ACLU Launches Phone App to Record Police Stops: Should Police Recordings Be Required?
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2012/07/05 18:00:00
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All too often, police officers are accused of acting unlawfully. Either officers are wrongly accused of brutality or they have indeed brutally handled a case and gotten away with it. Well, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wants to have your back.
A new phone app, called "Stop and Frisk Watch," plans to deal with shady cops by recording video and audio of all police encounters when the authority stops you. So, how do you feel about it? Should we equip our law enforcement with recording devices that both hold them more accountable and also help to better protect their rights as officers of the law?
AUTOBLOG.COM reports:
A new phone app, called "Stop and Frisk Watch," plans to deal with shady cops by recording video and audio of all police encounters when the authority stops you. So, how do you feel about it? Should we equip our law enforcement with recording devices that both hold them more accountable and also help to better protect their rights as officers of the law?
Shortly after the New York branch of the American Civil Liberties Union created an app called Stop and Frisk Watch, in response to the law enforcement
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Top Opinion
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Roger47 2012/07/05 18:27:32
evidence made availalbe via a FOIA request of any local PD.
And of course if you have a chicago like police force, good luck getting anything out of them period.
I'm not that familiar with the history of the dash-cam videos but I have seen several come out over the years that DO NOT make the police look good... so there must be some way for those to come out.... it has happened.
In some municipalities the police are just as violent and as dangerous as the criminals. Police have already been caught tampering with cruiser equipped videos, this is not enough.
If the Police cannot police themselves , it is up to citizens to protect their rights and the rights of others.
Like the military and federal law enforcement agencies, Police Unions should illegal and abolished.
Answer:They already are.
However the proof of police misconduct almost always is never saved.
This is the most disturbing one imo: