Recording police fuckups is now a punishable offense...in the eyes of fucktard cops

[sleepy1212]

Modacity: "So, Selentic, I heard you got buttraped the other day"
Selentic: "No I didn't, that's a lie"
Modacity: "No really, we saw it on copcam.com"
Modacity: "Yea, you called the cops and you were crying and sobbing like a little bitch"
Selentic: "What the fuck that's none of your busin..."
Modacity: "You said he stole your wallet and tied you up and then..."
Selentic: "C'mon guys I'm really traumatized already, just lay off"
Modacity: "Everybody knows already, just chill out"
Modacity: "Remember when the cop saw bloody briefs on the floor and called EMS?"
Modacity: "Yea, you could tell he was trying not to laugh"
Selentic: "Seriously guys I'm the victim here"
Modacity: "You're gay and everyone knows it. Transparency is bitch ain't it?"

[Rainbow Dash]

I am gay, and everyone knows it, so idc!

Also your example sucks and you suck, stop posting pls!

[Cortexian]

If it was all transparent then most of this kind of shit wouldn't happen in the first place. That said, it would then just move into units where transparency isn't practical like Tactical and Undercover units.

Transparency will never really solve any Police abuse issues, the only sure-fire way is to hand out more severe punishments. Cops shouldn't just be kicked out of the service, they should be fined and sent to prison for double the regular sentence for whatever they did. Since cops don't have a very long life expectancy in prison, problem is solved permanently.

[Sanctus]

Transparency will never really solve any Police abuse issues, the only sure-fire way is to hand out more severe punishments. Cops shouldn't just be kicked out of the service, they should be fined and sent to prison for double the regular sentence for whatever they did. Since cops don't have a very long life expectancy in prison, problem is solved permanently.

I like that idea

And NVOUS you're right that isn't the best example, how about this:
It's safe to say you'd be traumatized if you were raped, right? How would you feel if that experience, or the details described by you in an interview with a detective, was posted on websites like youtube? The apathetic people, like 4chan, and those alike that make up a good portion of the internet would try to make jokes about it, troll you, or even worse... post in on a pornographic website. Or some wierd shit like that. The point is this: complete transparency won't solve problems like these.

[Rainbow Dash]

1) I'd take that over incompetent and abusive police forces

2) We're discussing police uniform cameras that would be available from a public database, so unless they walked in on someone raping someone else or walked in and raped someone themselves there wouldn't be any issues with what he's suggesting. The latter of which along with other abuse police officers could perform is precisely what the system would exist to prevent, so it's a non issue right there. However if that did happen, albeit unlikely, I'd see no problem with protecting the victim's identities by whatever means possible, pixelating faces, and shit like that.

[thehoodedsmack]

If the film has to be edited to obscure faces, it could be edited to remove portions they don't want you to see.

To solve that problem, you'd need a continuous 9-5, or whatever the officer's hours are, uninterrupted video. So what, are we going to see cops taking a shit?

And to solve that problem, you have to give them the option to turn it off, even momentarily, which still leaves open the option to edit out recorded events under the label of supposed "private times".

There's too many problems with that idea. You know what's a good idea? Public surveillance in public places. Let cops keep their cameras to record evidence. If evidence goes missing or is somehow altered, rely on the efforts of your local community's surveillance program to fill in the blanks and expose any wrongdoing. It's not some big-brother initiative, it's only for matters taking place in public areas. Steps like that are a better start than broadcasting the constant happenings of a police-force.

[Kornman00]

Coming to an iOS device near you...iCensor!

[Kornman00]

Police Officer Arrest Woman in Her Front Yard for Filming the Cops

[DarkHalo003]

There really is nothing that can be done to prevent this nonsense from happening besides the repercussions of severe punishment. Either way, cops can't destroy evidence as suggested before as that is illegal. However, destroying the device and memory unit would hardly ever be called as excessive force by anyone in the department because it's one of those actions that probably would just warrant a slap of the wrist.

As far as Police Cams, we know the officers have access to the units and their contents, not to mention I can see why it may be offensive for the victims of any situation (how embarassing) if the videos were publicly released, and we also know that departments cover traces of evidence so that they are not sacked by stupid decisions by their officers. Therefore, it's almost pointless to argue that the cams would be possible in the first place (unless you put some serious tech and MONEY involved that the departments just can't afford). Cops would tamper with info too much (if the cops suck) and victims would be further humiliated, causing a lot more issues there. But those can be sidestepped to a degree I guess. I suppose my main point is, even if cops were strapped with cams and what not, for the cams to even be useful and tamper-proof would be far to costly to actually implement, let alone maintain.

[Cortexian]

Police Officer Arrest Woman in Her Front Yard for Filming the Cops

She deserves that 100%, she was given more than enough clear warnings about what the officers wanted. The officers were uncomfortable and simply wanted to limit the danger to themselves as much as possible. If I were conducting a traffic stop at night and someone came out of their house and just started filming me from their lawn I'd ask them to go back inside as well. I'd let them know that they can continue filming from inside the house, just give me the space to do my job in a safe manner. If the citizen continued to ignore me like the girl in the video I'd definitely arrest her for not following Police instructions (which is perfectly valid mind you).