Seriously, you are going to bring LAPD into this? Can't exactly compare LA to an honest respectable police force, apples and peanuts comparison. Simply the worst PD I have ever seen or heard of, they are what got the whole LEO bashing thing started with from the beginning. I was in LA during the whole Rodney King fiasco, those clowns made it dangerous to be a white person in SoCal. Using them as your benchmark for LE behavior or even a guideline or measuring factor at all for LE in general is pure ignorance. They are by far the exception and I would rank them the bottom 1% of departments.

I can and do take issue with people using them as a backdrop to say all or most LE are bad. In case you missed it(.


FYI, even without video rape leaves evidence. Saying it can be turned off is a piss poor reason to not implement the cameras.

Your gun could jam when you try to use it to stop an attack, so why have a gun? You could miss your target in an emergency situation, so why carry a gun? Better yet you should not be allowed to carry one because you MIGHT miss. Way to use Anti's same shitty logic.

LAPD is the police force of the second largest city in the U.S. They are going to be used as a benchmark example no matter what. Unfortunately for them, and for LE as a whole, it's a pretty bad stain.

and the NYPD isn't doing anything to help that image along either..

Let me be clear.

I think the cameras would be a net positive, and wouldn't mind them.

I never said it was a bad idea, I was just pointing out the issues with them.

I got "actually'd"

Well then, hide yo kids and hide yo husband. They rapin people out here!

Pure and simple huh? Nothing is pure and simple with you.

What you're saying and HOW you're saying it projects your thoughts. You said once that your concern was that a camera would "malfunction" or otherwise not work. You just said it again. You also said you think the cameras are a good idea. So...which is it? If your concerns are that good cops will get screwed and that bad cops will have a random camera "malfunction" and get away with things they otherwise shouldn't then how can you still think the cameras are a good idea??? If your projected view on it is that good cops will get the shaft and bad cops will still get away with shit then how can you support it? As you said, this is the case with dash cams now. Good cops might get caught slipping up but bad cops will just turn off the camera or park in a way that the contact is out of the cameras range. So are dash cams good or bad? According to what you've said how are lapel pins going to be any better except the possible viewpoint?

You didn't get anything. It was a reply to a comment. Would you rather me address you directly?

Pure and simple huh? Nothing is pure and simple with you.

What you're saying and HOW you're saying it projects your thoughts. You said once that your concern was that a camera would "malfunction" or otherwise not work. You just said it again. You also said you think the cameras are a good idea. So...which is it? If your concerns are that good cops will get screwed and that bad cops will have a random camera "malfunction" and get away with things they otherwise shouldn't then how can you still think the cameras are a good idea??? If your projected view on it is that good cops will get the shaft and bad cops will still get away with shit then how can you support it? As you said, this is the case with dash cams now. Good cops might get caught slipping up but bad cops will just turn off the camera or park in a way that the contact is out of the cameras range. So are dash cams good or bad? According to what you've said how are lapel pins going to be any better except the possible viewpoint?[/quote]

They're both good and bad.

I think the true power is people uploading videos to YouTube and the like.....which is why so many corrupt cops feel 'unsafe' with people recording them.

Hell, most officers I know would either welcome it because it will show them doing the right thing, or dislike it because they feel it's disrespectful but ignore it as it is the right of the person filming to continue to do so.



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Excellent reply. Thank you.