> William A. Farrar, the Rialto police chief, believes the cameras may offer more benefits than merely reduced complaints against his force: the department is n

> William A. Farrar, the Rialto police chief, believes the cameras may offer more benefits than merely reduced complaints against his force: the department is now trying to determine whether having video evidence in court has also led to more convictions. I dislike that this is a measure of "success". More or fewer convictions is not necessarily a good thing, because the existence of the camera does not magically make any particular criminal more or less guilty. What they should be measuring is the increased degree of certainty of the result of any trial, whether the accused is found guilty or not guilty.