We have yet another case of video evidence that gives the public a peek into tragic events such as this Bart shooting. I have to wonder if it's simply time to make video a part of life for officers.
I have to wonder if each and every officer who is able to stop, question and arrest someone, is required to wear some kind of video/audio device while on the clock....if we might see a higher level of professionalism from every officer.
Of course there are so many that are fantastic, this would just shed more light on the ones that we never hear about....our quiet uspoken hero's at work every day....as well as the few bad apples we do hear about in the news...wouldn't it just make sense to have a steady video of all activities to be monitored by an outside agency to view for misconduct and imporve our current system?
I think this is a cost the general public would support a tax raise for, I'm certain there has been enough question over the years to cause us all to want a greater level of accountability for our officers as well as the actions of the people in question, the ones getting arrested, questioned or stopped. We all might behave differently if we knew we were being watched.
I think it's just time to get the full story and stop with all of the video's taken from people who are on lookers or a piece of video caught by a camera somewhere. Why not move to have the whole story told, 100% of the time.....wire up and head out.....pretty simple answer, cuts the questions out and makes things cut and dry from beginning to end.
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