The Montreal Policemen’s Brotherhood is proposing that officers be equipped with uniform-mounted cameras that can be used to video-tape various interventions.
The union says in other jurisdictions where police officers are equipped with point-of-view cameras, the use of force by officers and assaults on officers drops by as much as 60%.
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Imagine that..
I bet Montréal students are pleased as punch about this…
If you want to know that cops are behaving badly, give them anonymity. (Like the cop in Berkeley who spray painted the sitting protesters with pepper spray, or the NYC cop the pepper sprayed a bystander, or the cops in Brazil who organized death squads to rid Rio of all those orphans [usually orphaned by police actions that killed their parents in the favellas.] The list of cops behaving badly just goes on and on.)
When they have no fear of retribution, cops behave fearlessly, but they tend to attack those who are least likely to put up any resistance. (And shoot the hell out of anybody that they can’t see too clearly, or ruin a bride’s wedding day by shooting up the groom’s car at the end of one last night as a bachelor.)
Meanwhile a real criminal is too full of himself or is too desperate for cash now to bother with the bullies and goes straight for your pocket. (Sort of like a politician, hmmm?)
I think if you just gave the cops the “right” to punch people right in the nose with a closed fist that it would solve quite a few problems. It seems the cops are desperate for a non lethal way to “legally” get people to wake up and comply with their authority. We can argue if a cop should even have authority later, but if someone calls the cops to an incident then any responding cops should at least be allowed to punch anyone disobeying their authority right in the nose.
People (like the dumb animals they are) would eventually learn or remember to be respectful of the cops authority. And the cops would be able to get out a lot of frustration when they see Johny Goof-off / Gang Member blowing bloody buggers all over his $200 tennis shoes — usually because Johny felt like beating up his girl friend or getting belligerently drunk or something. Call it legal bullying. After all, being a bully is sort of a requirement to being a cop! So if it’s not a traffic stop or crowd control (other than a riot) then let them start doing what they do best – kick ass!
… And then post the videos on YouTube!
Carbon Copy, really!? Granted I don’t give a crap about lowlife wife beaters and child molesters, but do you understand what civil liberties are for? There is a balance war constantly being waged between the nuts that go too far and the ones that want to be free and left alone. Giving police the power to just punch you in the nose or even just rough housing someone to show them that they have authority is insane. It’s always nice when you’re not the one being punched in the nose. It’s very easy to say take my rights if it will make me safe, because that is what you’re saying. I for one think that anything we can do to make less harm to one another is worth discussing over and over and refining it over and over, because that’s the only way to find consensus.
So is it the violence by cops that drops, or the assault on cops?
If it’s the latter, then that is an intrusion on privacy.
Now, we just need all those cameras streamed to the internet so we can have crowd sourced evaluations for promotions and the like.
The data is strong support for using the devices. It goes a long way toward protecting the innocent and gets rid of he said she said.
Antonin Scalia just wrote the dissent saying that cops cannot collect DNA from every arrest. Former Obama Solicitor General Office attorney takes to the New York Times to defend the decision.
And I wrote that now Mr. Every Man has just watched his fifth amendment rights heaved right out of the window.
Of course that doesn’t apply to scu, uh, politicians, right? (Boy are they going to be surprised.)
What’s the point? In USA these sorts of cop-cams always ALWAYS seem to get lost or malfunction just when they are needed most by the mundanes. Mundane is the term used for non-government-workers. These types of cameras have a strong habit of being turned on and being quite functional ONLY when it is in the favor of a government worker some how, SOME HOW. My information pertains to the USA only. I have no information about the so-called reliability of Canadian cop-cams. Best Luck my Canadian friends. I hope you figure it out, so that we in the USA can hopefully copy a working formula for cop-cams.
Surprise, surprise, surprise!
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Finally — a great use for Google Glass!