The OS bravely soldiers on, cutting and pasting stories to DU, facing his death in a grim steady sort of way.
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 01:32 PM
Omaha Steve (48,070 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141036387
Denver police cameras didn't record most use-of-force cases
Source: AP-Excite
By SADIE GURMAN
DENVER (AP) — In a warning to law enforcement agencies rushing to equip officers with body cameras after killings by police nationwide, a new report says the devices used by Denver officers during a trial period didn't record most of the use-of-force incidents that occurred.
Denver's independent police monitor, Nicholas Mitchell, also said police used force more often and citizens' complaints against officers rose during the cameras' six-month trial period in the city's busy downtown district. Police officials repeatedly said they expected the cameras would drive down those numbers.
Experts say the early findings released Tuesday are a reminder that the effectiveness of the increasingly popular technology, billed as a tool to improve police accountability, still depends on the officers using it.
Denver officers' body cameras recorded just 21 of 80 documented uses of force in the downtown district during the trial, which ran from June to December, Mitchell found. Thirty-five of the encounters weren't recorded because they involved off-duty officers, who were not required to wear the cameras while moonlighting as security guards.
FULL story at link.
Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20150311/us--denver_police-body_cameras-ee53de0613.html
wait a moment... why could use of force events if they didn't even have the cameras on them?
80-35=45/21 events captured by body cameras. thats 47% of the time. Not too bad.
Downwinder (10,226 posts)
1. Need to issue cameras to citizens.
Don't Obamaphones come with a camera?
Omaha Steve (48,070 posts)
5. Omaha officers told: Don't interfere with citizens' right to record police activity
In Nebraska as long as the citizen isn't obstruction the police in their duties then there isn't a law against cameras of filming.
“Individuals have a First Amendment right to record police officers in the public discharge of their duties, plain and simple,†said Deputy Chief Greg Gonzalez.
The department has long recognized that right. But the revised policy, which cites federal case law, states that citizens cannot be arrested simply for recording police or being near a crime scene.
at the link it states as long as they don't obstruct the officers.
gregcrawford (406 posts)
8. So give the cops cameras they can't turn off and rip 'em if the mess with the cameras. ****ers have got to learn that they are NOT above the law themselves. Better yet, hold the brass accountable as well for every infraction committed by those under their command. Then you damn sure betcha the shit will stop!
Why not install CCTV on evey telephone pole, power poll and street corner?
valerief (43,582 posts)
9. Of course, they didn't, cuz there are no repercussions if they don't.
not sure what the retard is commenting on. Maybe that off duty cops don't have to xarry body cameras. Yeah... I can see a law telling police they have to wear a camera at all times which is always running. I still think it would be easier to put a camera on every person 24/7/365 that runs continually.
