isnt recording police contact the best way to?

Question

to keep police brutality at a minimum i believe every one should video them every chance you get.would it not be good for everyone involved?

Answer 1

Yes, recording the police is a good way to keep down police brutality. As a matter of fact, we record our own officers becasue we make it mandatory that our officers video record themselves when making contact with most people. Then, supervisors like me review the tapes and look for the officers mistakes and if we find questionable contacts, then they are repremanded for such actions. Police brutality is rare and most officers don't put up with fellow officers who are even a little out of hand. Things have changed over the years. I've been a cop for 22 years and I can remember when the police actually received more respect because we were more heavy handed back then. Today, most people know that we are not like that anymore and they push us to the limit. However, there are some officers that are burtal, and those officers give the rest of us a bad name.

Answer 2

For starters, if we screened our police more thoroughly, such things wouldn't be a problem. To someone's previous answer, 'giving a guy with a GED a gun', the level of education has nothing to do with whether or not you'd be a good cop. All that's required to be a police officer is a high school degree or equivalent and the proper training. That you got a GED does not make you stupid.

But, yeah, with the current police force, probably, yeah. But where are we gonna get funding? It shouldn't be the responsibility of schmucks like us to monitor our supposed protectors. Why don't the actual cops get off their butts and do something about the brutality of their co-workers?

And to be honest, most cops I've met our disgusted with the behavior of such officers. But it's not as common as people make it out to be, either.

Answer 3

As a general rule most patrol cars do have video in effect and most all is recorded.
There are few officers that are corrupt enough to brutilize prisoners and those few make it tough on the professional men in blue but corruption occurs in all professions in one way or another.
I would suspect with all of the recording most people do in everyday life what with their own videos and phone cameras and I suspect that at any given time there is plenty of footage available from passersby if an act of brutalitiy were to occur.
Keep in mind that all acts of what the untrained eye would call police brutality might not always be that and that is why trained personnel have to investigate any and all accusations of such.

Answer 4

ABSOLUTELY! We have all seen video footage of police brutality. I wonder, for every incident of police acting like animals we catch on tape, how many similar incidents go untaped? And unpunished?

For those of you on the other side of this argument: If you have so much faith in what good upstanding law abiding police we employ in America, then I guess catching them on tape won't be a problem, since they don't do anything wrong anyway, right?

Answer 5

the video camera is a good tool, and an always impartial judge. video must be used in context though. 99.99% of cops are upstanding and honorable individuals, with that last .01% being the bad apples. police brutality is open to interpritation. When people resist or attack police, what are they supposed to do? That is why there are standards of use of force. so long as the video is intended to be an impartial judge, and not a weapon for some scumbag to claim "police brutality" i am all for it. 99.99% of the time though, remember the video will be used to convict the criminal and can ultimately be their undoing.

Answer 6

I'm a police officer and I'll be the 1st to tell you that I LOVE my in car camera. For several reasons. 1st....When a police officer tells the jury in a case like DWI how the suspect acted, they listen. But when we can SHOW the jury how this person acted....It's a great tool.
2nd....It has gotten me out of alot of complaints when the perticular citizen didnt like the fact that the law wasn't on their side or we couldn't wave a magic wand and fix a problem in 10 minutes that took them 10 years to make.
I've never seen an ethical police officer in fear of audio or video recordings. But I have seen such recordings edited...you can take ANYTHING out of context and make it look wrong.
I use it on 99% of my calls.

Answer 7

Sure. And to keep crime at a minimum, let's videotape every public place in every city in the US.
Don't you think having all of your activities on video would be good for everyone? Then if a crime is committed, we can just pull that tape.

Answer 8

as long as it is keep in context, police work and deal with dangerouis people, and violence happens, that is not brutality, but can be viewed that way by those not on the scene

Answer 9

It wouln't hurt.

I'd like to see stronger academic requirements to be a police officer. The thought of giving a gun and a badge to some guy with GED scares me.

Answer 10

yeah it is. i have had alot of encounters with cops in my life and not all bad. i have family that are cops. in all of my encounters i have seen city cops in uniform when i was 16 trying to convince me to beat up this black kid down the street and telling me that they had my back if anything happened. these same cops looked the other way as i drank beer and 151 because i was hanging out with neo-nazi skinheads. these same cops still in uniform and on duty told the skins as they left after getting half drunk and about to drive. they said "keep up the good fight guys" then nazi saluted and said 88/14. other times as i was at the station i seen two cops walk in to a cell and beat the **** out of this guy out of camera range just for being drunk and pissing on the floor beside the toilette as he was pissing. again i have seen a kid get tased by the cops just for falling around being drunk at the skatepark(this kid was only 14). i have seen cops exept bribes so they wouldnt take this guys weed from him. i have seen them steal money out of an unconcience mans wallet. i know a detective that gives this kid mass amounts of crack for information. cops are corrupt as **** but nothing is ever reported or done about it because they all do wrong and they all got eachothers back. dont think these guys are there to help you, they are not they are there to get the government more money and to help them selves along the way without having to worry about cops.