Sunday, September 28, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/us/todays-police-put-on-a-gun-and-a-camera.html?_r=1
With many citizens recording policer officers in a negative light and image, the New York Police Department is considering adding cameras to police officers.
Following cities like Ferguson; Flagstaff, Ariz.; Minneapolis; Norfolk, Va.; and Washington, who now require police to have cameras either in their car or a body cam, New York have studied how the Los Angeles Police Department and will plan its own pilot project.
With that in mind, this is a good stepping stone for the NYPD. Many videos of police recorded by citizens do a good job at showing their true colors. But this does not mean people should stop recording.
We do not know how well this pilot program will work. There are many questions surrounding this idea, but of course there will always be a lot of questions surrounding any type of new pilot program. Nonetheless, I still think this is a good idea for the NYPD and hopefully a new start to end police brutality happening around the states.
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I'm not really in favor of having police officers be forced to use cameras. I mean, personally, I would hate to have to be strapped up with a camera everytime I did my job. I'm a journalist –– people are trusting me to be ethical while I'm reporting and writing. I would hate to have someone looking over my shoulder while I do everything I was trained to do. It's obviously a different situation because police are dealing with different situations, but I think the message is still the same. "We don't trust you to your job, so we're watching you now."
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