your focus is on the lives that cops take, but you ignore the lives that cops save. If a body cam creates an environment where for example a cop will now ignore a plea to harass drug dealers hanging out on a stoop, or gang bangers driving circles around a neighborhood block because BLM has created an environment of police not wanted to get litigating or labeled for profiling for that unfortunate time when they stop the wrong guy or hassle the wrong kid, then that is doing a disservice to the black community as a whole. I believe there is going to an increase in black lives lost - if we haven't seen it already due to the adverse effects of BLM on the police.bluetick wrote:A) not sure why you cherrypicked NYC stats, and
B)You're not saying body cams and dashcams hinder cops from serving the public, right? Seems like the best way to counter a fake police-brutality charge would be a video. Good/honest cops surely wouldn't mind. Plus you can use the vids for training and grading purposes and the like. Win win win"Body cameras are great, but if cops feel handcuffed in their ability to serve the public while protecting their lives, they aren't going to choose serving the public."
And I contend that BLM really isn't about saving black lives, because if you look at statistics, greater police enforcement in the African American community has resulted in a huge number of saved lives (compare those cherry picked homicide numbers in New York in the early 1990's to the numbers now and then read why those numbers have dropped) and its more about a cops hassling African Americans in African American communities.
I'm not against body cams but if the goal here is to stop police profiling then the price paid is going to be an increase in black on black crime.
If a cop is in a situation where he thinks his life is in danger, he's not going to give a damn whether he has a body cam or not, he's going to shoot and make sure he goes home to his family that night. That situation has nothing to do with being good or honest. I also don't think that if a white cops shoots a black man and there is cell phone video of it, what a body cam shows or doesn't show is going to make a damn bit of difference to the people outraged by it.
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In one of two reports released by the Department of Justice on Wednesday, federal investigators opted against charging Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson with a federal crime for the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old.
That report comes on the same day that the Justice Department unleashed a scathing review of the Ferguson Police Department, which concluded that even if the Brown case was not racially motivated, the department utilized racially discriminatory tactics and that police supervisors used taxpayer-funded e-mail to send racist jokes.
The broader report validates many of the complaints voiced by hundreds of protesters who took to the streets in Ferguson. But the more specific report does undermine what has become their rallying cry.
Based on several eyewitness accounts, many protesters adopted “Hands up, don’t shoot!” as a rallying cry. However, investigators from the Justice Department found that many of those witnesses were not credible. Brown likely did not have his hands up when Wilson shot and killed him, investigators concluded.
