LEOs and BWCs

[ArcticDriver]

Originally Posted By: ndfergy
1) In either situation, how do you feel about such constraints?

Definitely for them but the devices must be controlled through both usage restrictions and chain of custody. Like ISO industry standards you have to prove what you say is true, i.e. weights and measures cert. on your shipping scale. The wearer must be locked out of the recorded data an accessed only by a secured unbiased party. You can't have LEO's randomly recording and access to data which may be manipulated or kept for their own personal use with the possibility of impropriety, i.e. recording the cleavage of a woman driver.


Google TASER and Evidence.com

A much larger concern to me is keeping this footage from open access and assuring pricacy rights of those filmed are respected.

 

[ndfergy]

Absolutely and I agree with your earlier post.

 

[Stelth]

I'm all for BWC's. That said, I don't support new taxes for any reason.

Like anything, there are pluses and minuses. I have a nephew who is an LEO, and he told me that they are now criticized for using profanity. If you're dealing with some street punk and you say, hey, I'm not effing around here, well, then you're scolded for using bad words. So, hopefully, they won't usually be used for such nit-picking.

 

[TooManyWheels]

Originally Posted By: eljefino

That all said I was a juror on a DUI case where the cop "forgot" to load a tape in his cruiser dash-cam. Acquittal. I as a tax payer paid for that dashcam and expect it to be used.


Likewise I was a juror in a drug case where the police had brought all the equipment to tape but "the batteries were dead/wrong/whatever". And then the judge got all upset that we didn't find this to be a credible explanation.