How to stop police officers from turning off their cameras

[40RatRod]

-Officers leaving the office for duty should be required to leave through one door only.

-Cameras are automatically turned on as they pass through that door and cannot be turned off by officers until they return.

-Any sign that they have covered the badges during their tour of duty would require an investigation and they could be fired.

-It will cost to set this up but something has to be done.

[Meadowoak]

1. The cameras shouldn't be able to be turned off. They shouldn't

Even have an on / off switch. The police chief could start the cameras at the beginning of the shift, and turn them off at the end of the shift.

[40RatRod]

3. Agree. But the could still put tape over them.

[Meadowoak]

4. That should warrant an automatic dismissal.

[RainCaster]

2. First offense: one month off, no pay

Two months for the second time.

[multigraincracker]

5. Great idea and

random drug test and I’ll support more cops and more funding.

[brewens]

6. I was a trustee at our Eagles lodge and we had a serious complaint about a member who was drunk

and caused some problems. What you might boot someone for 30 to 90 days for. I knew what would happen and clued the other guys in beforehand. I just said that as soon as she says she doesn't remember, we're done. The only people around were her bunch and our bartender. If she didn't remember, all we had to go on was our bartender's word. Sure as shit, she played the memory card and that was it.

It might not take what you suggest. Make the cops responsible for turning on those cameras and keeping them on. No video and anything they had is thrown out. From a traffic ticket to a shooting.

[Sneederbunk]

7. Come to Portland OR where the cops refuse to wear cameras.

[halfulglas]

8. Remember when some cops claimed that cameras would be a good thing?

When body cameras were first proposed to be required equipment, they claimed that the cameras would prove they were right during most questioned instances. Funny, how so often they aren't working.