Cops Wearing Cameras
BY Herschel Smith
10 years, 2 months ago
It’s in the news, cops wearing cameras. A recent Washington Post editorial presses the issue with D.C., and even the New York Times has jumped into the fray.
Color me skeptical. If cops want cameras in order to protect themselves, I couldn’t care less. If the video will be live-streamed to a third party and controlled separate from the police, I’m all for it. This is especially true of SWAT raids, in which the cops may not wear the cameras because of some bogus claim to OPSEC or for the safety of the officers. In other words, it needs to follow certain rules like wearing cameras all of the time, third party control, and mandatory release of the information.
This follows what reader Ned Weatherby calls Herschel’s Law.
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