Citing Baltimore unrest, Hillary Clinton calls for police body cameras

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Amid continuing unrest in Baltimore over the death of a young black man in police custody, Hillary Clinton on Wednesday called for widespread use of police body cameras and an end to mass incarceration during her first major policy speech since launching her presidential campaign.

She called the expanded use of body cameras a “common sense” measure that “will improve transparency and accountability” and “help protect good people on both sides of the lens.”

In advocating an end to the large-scale imprisonment of low-level offenders, Clinton noted that “One in every 28 children in our country now has a parent in prison.

Full Story at NYDailyNews (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/hillary-police-body-cameras-mass-incarceration-article-1.2203418)

I think the PTB have figured out they can make more money off of "low-level offenders" without incarcerating them. More federal jobs will probably be created for parole officers, etc., and federal contracts given for "ankle monitors," "body cameras", etc. Probably "body cameras" for these "low-level offenders" as well.

[fisharmor]

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[twomp]

I saw the video of Eric Garner being choked to death for the heinous crime of selling loose cigarettes and contempt of cop. Nothing happened to the cops. If any other person was caught on tape doing that, they would be rotting in jail right now. Body cameras will do nothing until the government treats cops like they would any other criminal. For now, the King's men will not be subject to the rules that the rest of society has to follow.

[Zippyjuan]

In the cities which have gone with body cameras, police incidents and shootings have gone way down. It tells police they are being watched.

http://www.newsweek.com/amidst-debate-study-finds-body-cameras-decrease-polices-use-force-295315


Study Finds Body Cameras Decrease Police’s Use of Force

2014 saw intense protests against excessive police force and heightened tensions between police and communities across the United States, and debate raged over how the use of police force can be managed while still allowing officers to do their jobs.

Some see body-worn cameras as a solution, allowing interactions to be filmed and later be available for review if unfair treatment or use of force is alleged. But the use of this technology raises a host of questions, including the impact on privacy rights and police-community relations.

One study set out to explore the impact of body worn cameras, and its initial findings were that they do, in fact, decrease police use of force.

The Journal of Quantitative Criminology recently published the study, which detailed the first controlled and much-discussed experiment to ask whether body-worn cameras could reduce the prevalence of police use-of-force or the number of complaints filed against police.

Conducted by the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology, the study, based on a 12-month trial in Rialto, California, found that body-worn cameras reduced the use of force by roughly 50 percent, says Dr. Barak Ariel, the lead author. Complaints against police also fell 90 percent during the study period compared with the previous year.

“This is a promising tool for police officers, which is likely to be a game changer not only for the professionalization of policing, but in terms of police-public relations,” says Ariel, an assistant professor at the Institute of Criminology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a lecturer in Experimental Criminology at the University of Cambridge in England.

[CPUd]

wait for it....