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A lot of office malfeasance of what we take for it can be dismissed under Qualified Immunity by courts and is regularly done so. There was a recent case where a
by Shivetya 9y ago
A lot of office malfeasance of what we take for it can be dismissed under Qualified Immunity by courts and is regularly done so. There was a recent case where a criminalist who falsely testified in a case gets Qualified Immunity. How do we act in the face of that?
We work in a society where the government authority is always right. doesn't really matter your color, even I was military we were told if brought up for even a traffic offense to never imply the arresting officer was wrong, just explain why we were not at fault.
So with regards to camera. In a one vs one encounter the camera must be active and recording unless damaged by the perpetrator and even then the record should be easily destroyed. So while a camera could possibly be damaged during a scuffle it should so this event.
Hence, if no video then no crime unless it can be proven that all available recording devices were disabled through an act of god. No officer should be permitted out of station without having another party verify all recording gear is in working order, same for the cars. Simply put, we force them to never enter the public unless their recording gear is function and soon as a fault is detected it must be remedied then.
Then make it a federal offense for disabling or even turning off any recording device. It has to be federal. we back it up not with fines but termination and jail time. We can give the cops a three strikes and your out.
last note (did not have time to write a short reply) is that we must prevent law enforcement officers fired in one locale from simply getting hired in another