re: Because of Ferguson I ask again: Why don't we have cameras on police uniforms?

He's suggesting that there could be proof of their unlawful behavior.

Ya know, from the camera footage.

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Are police actively against cameras?

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Absolutely

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Seems more like an issue of funding and logistics.

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This would have been an excuse, say, 10 years ago, this may have been a point, but thanks to civil forfeiture and our cops being militarized with over the top equipment they'd never need, like tanks and a land mine detecting droid. But now Gopros are around $100, and I assure you the government could make a personal camera on each uniform for a whole lot less than that.

One police department that did they found immediately that citizen's complaints went down by 86% in the first month that they were implemented. The thing is, cops can be assholes, and they're not likely going to threaten a citizen in some way if they know they are being recorded at all times.

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another thing to mount and power a camera on the officer and retrieving/archiving the footage. It can be done, but it's probably pretty expensive...

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You do know that you're carrying something right now that can not only do this, but also surf the web, give you directions, make phone calls, send emails, give you weather updates, send messages, works as a calendar, an alarm clock, a photo album, has an entire music library, can intercept radio signals, carry books and newspapers, can be a translator, be a scanner, as well as do thousands of other things. How is this camera going to cost that much money? These frickers have way too much money to screw around with as it is, so spending about $50.00 on a recording device isn't shite.

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so no helicopter?

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I consider this in the wagging family

Let's make a law that makes it against the law to break the law; no cameras needed.

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Here's a question I'll ask again: why don't we all just obey the laws of this country?

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Because randomly driving around at 11pm and being pulled over is breaking the law, right? Or how about being stopped by a cop for tires being too flat and an inspection sticker that isn't expired... but still given a warning.. that's breaking the law, right?

frick you and your love for pigs.

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Wtodd

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I consider this in the wagging family

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you can consider me chinook then

Also good points.

Some departments have them and most have in car cameras. The body cameras are just getting to a decent price point. Also you need the server space and tech pros that can handle the content. Most small departments (most departments across the country are in fact tiny) don't have the manpower or budget for this. The cameras that will hold up day to day abuse are not cheap or easy to fix. It's slowly coming. Why doesn't your profession use that latest greatest technology (same reasons but your employer is most likely not under a tight gov budget).

$300 to $400 per unit?

My city has a little over 400 officers. That would be over $120,000. Thats alot of money for a police department to spend. Alot of money when they are already getting killed by overtime.