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It's this exact mechanism that allows police to bury mistakes. Rarely are the innocent truly protected.
by xfitm3 6y ago
It's this exact mechanism that allows police to bury mistakes. Rarely are the innocent truly protected.
- jayrice257 6y agoThen how do you know if it's rare?
- VWWHFSfQ 6y agonot really
- dependenttypes 6y agoYes, really. There have been countless cases where the police "accidently" "lost" footage critical to a case.
- VWWHFSfQ 6y agoMost police body camera footage should never be made public. People have a right to privacy. You don't lose that right just because you had an encounter with a police officer that was filming you.
- floatingatoll 6y agoI think that loss of bodycam footage should be treated equivalently to discharge of a police weapon, with the officer assigned to desk duty until forensic analysis by an independent third party can confirm that the loss was caused intentionally.
- floatingatoll 6y agoI agree that this 'review' mechanism allows police to bury mistakes when the review process is operated by a captive body, such as the police or their union. Correcting that process to independent review is an essential step. I personally think that the review process should instead follow the jury duty process, where citizens are selected at random from the population to review police footage, but I would accept an independent review board as long as less than one third of the members are political appointees.