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So I guess my proposal is that any officer who carries a gun should be required to wear a "badge number" of some form, readable from 15-feet, on their back. The

So I guess my proposal is that any officer who carries a gun should be required to wear a "badge number" of some form, readable from 15-feet, on their back. The badge-number should be a ID that can be matched against a public website to identify the individual, name, bureau, and a picture of course. After all... If they aren't doing anything wrong they have nothing to hide... I'd also add that failure to do so should result in a $1,000 penalty, half of which should go as a $500 reward to anybody who reports the case (photo would suffice as proof). Officers should have their whereabouts tracked via there phones for accountability purposes, which could be used to verify such reports or identify officers.

Gibbon1 6y ago
Nah! Failure to do so should result in being fired, loss of pension, prosecution, imprisonment, and a felony record.
tantalor 6y ago
> failure to do so... How do you enforce the penalty if the perpetrator is anonymous? Fine their management instead? That doesn't work when the executive branch is above the law.
luckylion 6y ago
Very good point. Would also make spotting undercover cops easier. Finally, we'd be at the point 90ies Warez kids thought we were at. "If he wears no badge number on his back, he can't be a cop, otherwise nothing can be used in court. We're safe, boys".
- s3cur3 6y ago
  This is the least charitable interpretation of GP's proposal possible. A small amendment to GP's comment to apply only uniformed officers operating in public—as the D.C. troops from the article are—negates this reductio ad absurdum.
sitkack 6y ago
And body camera footage should be always streaming to a well known bucket, encrypted of course, but with publicly verifiable keys. Anyone should be able to "backup" body camera footage for any cop for any time range. Getting access to the decryption keys should be a matter of filling out the proper forms.
- sitkack 6y ago
  Body cameras should never be able to be turned off. The most that should be done is an officer should be able to hit a button to drop a marker into the timeline.
lostlogin 6y ago
> So I guess my proposal is that any officer who carries a gun should be required to wear a "badge number”. If an officer who isn’t armed kneels on someone’s neck and kills them, they then wouldn’t be identifiable.
darkarmani 6y ago
It's hard to track them down if they don't have the ID number, so the penalty must be very high. Get fired from the force; loss of pension, large fine, etc.

Gibbon1 6y ago

Nah! Failure to do so should result in being fired, loss of pension, prosecution, imprisonment, and a felony record.

tantalor 6y ago

> failure to do so... How do you enforce the penalty if the perpetrator is anonymous? Fine their management instead? That doesn't work when the executive branch is above the law.

luckylion 6y ago

Very good point. Would also make spotting undercover cops easier. Finally, we'd be at the point 90ies Warez kids thought we were at. "If he wears no badge number on his back, he can't be a cop, otherwise nothing can be used in court. We're safe, boys".

s3cur3 6y ago
This is the least charitable interpretation of GP's proposal possible. A small amendment to GP's comment to apply only uniformed officers operating in public—as the D.C. troops from the article are—negates this reductio ad absurdum.

sitkack 6y ago

And body camera footage should be always streaming to a well known bucket, encrypted of course, but with publicly verifiable keys. Anyone should be able to "backup" body camera footage for any cop for any time range. Getting access to the decryption keys should be a matter of filling out the proper forms.

sitkack 6y ago
Body cameras should never be able to be turned off. The most that should be done is an officer should be able to hit a button to drop a marker into the timeline.

lostlogin 6y ago

> So I guess my proposal is that any officer who carries a gun should be required to wear a "badge number”. If an officer who isn’t armed kneels on someone’s neck and kills them, they then wouldn’t be identifiable.

darkarmani 6y ago

It's hard to track them down if they don't have the ID number, so the penalty must be very high. Get fired from the force; loss of pension, large fine, etc.