To paraphrase the police, if police officers are doing their job with in the letter of the law then they have nothing to worry about being recorded. I'm not su

To paraphrase the police, if police officers are doing their job with in the letter of the law then they have nothing to worry about being recorded. I'm not sure why the framing is 'spying' on the police, as the police should welcome such monitoring to ensure that all officers are performing their public duties to the public, tools like these are extremely helpful in weeding out the 'bad apples' and I fail to understand how recording a public police force in public performing their public duties could be considered spying. Surely, the police would welcome evidence of the overwhelmingly positive effect they have on society being made more public. The police know the value that CCTV can bring to the public, these tools help the police realize the benefits of constant recording of their own members and should welcome efforts to verify that their records match 3rd party records so they can weed out those who would seek to distort the record. It's well known that the police sometimes have problems with evidence going missing, these tools help restore the evidence that understandably goes missing during an investigation. Tools like these are a great way for citizens to help the police do their job, and aid the police in collecting evidence that might be cost prohibitive in the current economic climate. It would be great if the police could distribute these tools from their websites and make them more available, perhaps on the back of their business cards they could make this information available. The Vancouver angle is especially interesting, as in the heat of the moment RCMP members in the Vancouver area often remember a different version of events than was recorded. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dzieka%C5%84ski_Taser_incident http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dzieka%C5%84ski_Taser_in... http://www.bcpolicecomplaints.org/monty_robinson.html http://www.bcpolicecomplaints.org/monty_robinson.html "Robinson, in a bid to get his driver’s licence returned, told a B.C. Supreme Court that he had two stiff drinks at home before returning to the scene of the accident, which caused him to fail a breathalyzer."