Yeah, but in your example would a cop be less at the mercy of bullshit without the body cam? I'm pretty sure the only difference would be that the management bends over backwards to say "well, we can't prove he was rude to the abo, but we love those guys and we take diversity very, very seriously, and there were a bunch of other (equally frivolous) complaints made against him, soooo...."
What is better is if in a hostile environment like that cops own their own bodycams.
Footage can be produced to defend the cop, but not to support frivolous complaints.
Where the department owns the camera and the footage, the purpose of the camera is a gotcha to prosecute bad cops.
When the cop owns the footage, the purpose is to supply exculpatory evidence rather than manufacture a pretext to persecute.
it is exactly the same in city buses, for truck drivers etc. Driver facing cameras are specifically for shifting the blame to the driver so the insurance can then make it their fault and recover money. There is no other reason to have a driver facing camera.
Yeah, but in your example would a cop be less at the mercy of bullshit without the body cam? I'm pretty sure the only difference would be that the management bends over backwards to say "well, we can't prove he was rude to the abo, but we love those guys and we take diversity very, very seriously, and there were a bunch of other (equally frivolous) complaints made against him, soooo...."
What is better is if in a hostile environment like that cops own their own bodycams.
Footage can be produced to defend the cop, but not to support frivolous complaints.
Where the department owns the camera and the footage, the purpose of the camera is a gotcha to prosecute bad cops.
When the cop owns the footage, the purpose is to supply exculpatory evidence rather than manufacture a pretext to persecute.
it is exactly the same in city buses, for truck drivers etc. Driver facing cameras are specifically for shifting the blame to the driver so the insurance can then make it their fault and recover money. There is no other reason to have a driver facing camera.