Citizens Given Video Cameras To Monitor Police

atommota writes "After years of complaints of police misconduct, the ACLU is giving free video cameras to some residents of high-crime neighborhoods in St. Louis, MO to help them monitor officers. The ACLU of Eastern Missouri launched the project Wednesday after television crews last year broadcast video of officers punching and kicking a suspect who led police on a car chase. 'The idea here is to level the playing field, so it's not just your word against the police's word,' said Brenda Jones, executive director of the ACLU chapter. The ACLU has worked closely with the police to make sure they are aware of this program. This is in stark contrast to the recent Pennsylvania arrest for felony wiretapping of a guy who was videotaping a police stop."

Comments

Re:Who cares?

[xgr3gx]

I agree 100%. If a suspect runs from the police, they should be required to shoot them in the back if they don't stop when asked to.
That way, you'll have less dangerous car chases and foot persuits, as well as less scumbags walking the street.
Lets face it, innocent people don't run.

Re:ACLU

[Artaxs]

Actually, I assumed that you were a run-of-the mill Troll. Attributing your intellectual laziness to Fox brainwashing was an attempt at being generous.

So, please clarify for Slashdot: do you always react with base canards as refined as "Think of the Children"?

hmm

[ClioCJS]

You sound like an enemy to true democracy, and an asshole to boot. I guess we should just lick the police's assholes and thank them for their great job, while doing zero to improve their daily abuses of authority and child molesting? Go RSS subscribe to http://www.badcopnews.net/ for 2 months and come back to me and tell me you have the same attitude. (NOTE: Ignore his racist headlines, site-administrator is a racist, but it is a good information source nonetheless.)