Additionally, officers are able to review body camera footage before filing an official report, even if there’s lethal use of force. This doesn’t just provide the opportunity for officers to tailor their reports to the footage, it makes it really easy.

Even in a 100% pro-cop viewpoint, you’d want to be against this. If the cop says “I believe X happened, and that’s why I shot the guy” on his report and it turns out X didn’t actually happen, then the video can exonerate a cop who was acting in good faith. And if X did actually happen, the cop is proven even more…

Not really. And it’s not like there’s a security guard actively watching a feed to monitor you 24/7. Rather, it’s logging all web access, tracking emails, and running all of that through a filter. If a red flag pops up, then they review what you actually did. These sort of protocols are standard in any company, and…

Um no. 3 since college. Defense industry first, then OEM, now supplier

I do. As I said, the point of cameras is for evidence. You can make up any possible negative situation you want.

Because people will complain about cops having cameras running 100% of the time, invasion of privacy, innocent until proven guilty. It’s the same with anti-Trump protesters that don’t want to be filmed.

True, but those kinds of logs take up mere GBs of storage and include things (like email) that you’re already storing for other reasons. Pretty easy to handle. Video quickly scales into TBs and often requires not only *more* storage, but faster storage. More servers, faster drive arrays, more robust networks. And as…

Private companies set their own rules. If you don’t like them, start your own company.

I think “getting their story straight” is a petulant view. I didn’t say video shouldn’t be public. I said it’s not on ACLU time.

Additionally, officers are able to review body camera footage before filing an official report, even if there’s lethal use of force.

That kind of policy doesn’t work well in an era of cellphones. Also, you don’t need facebook or twitter to waste time, you can be on Jalopnik.

Don’t Taze me Bro!

Most of those points are ridiculous. The main point of the cameras is to accurately record incidents for evidence, not to spy on cops. Of course they can and should review the potential evidence. Evidence of a crime should be released to the public until it won’t damage the case, not when the ACLU or millennials…

Jesus, someone taze that dude.

Yup, cause when there is a situation we are so programmed to pull out the old phone and getting the footage for social media.

“YALL ARE BRUTALIZIN’ ME!!”

I dislike Trump as much as the next guy but I’d advise you to employ Occam’s Razor to some extent here. Saying that this is some kind of grand conspiracy where Trump and Putin achieve world domination or whatever through this is simply laughable. The act that supposedly precipitated this strike was far from…

Sadly, after Obama’s flake on his “redline” and all his “leading from behind” nonsense this outcome was almost inevitable no matter who was president. The only thing these warlords understand is strength. I don’t like Trump any more than I liked Obama, but Trump inherited a middle east that had been utterly destroyed…

Assad’s been gassing his own people for 6 years.

Wait, seriously? Basically every country on Earth that has ever fought a protracted guerrilla war has eventually committed unnecessary war crimes. America has done it several times. During the Philippine Insurrection, one of the most famous quotes from a general was “I wish you to kill and burn, the more you kill…