Salt Lake City Police To Wear Camera Glasses

Psychotic_Wrath writes "The Salt Lake Police department will be much more transparent with their law enforcement. A program is being rolled out to require officers wear glasses equipped with a camera to record what they see. Of course, there are several officers opposed to this idea, who will resist the change. One of the biggest shockers to me is that the police chief is in strong support of this measure: 'If Chief Burbank gets his way, these tiny, weightless cameras will soon be on every police officer in the state.' With all the opposition of police officers being recorded by citizens that we are seeing throughout the country, it is quite a surprise that they would make a move like this. The officers would wear them when they are investigating crime scenes, serving warrants, and during patrols. Suddenly Utah isn't looking like such a bad place to be. Now we just need to hope other states and departments would follow suit. It sure will be nice when there is video evidence to show the real story."

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Re:Two way street

[AK Marc]

Then you don't know enough cops. The number of violent criminals mixed in the general population is pretty small, but cops treat everyone they run across as violent felons. So, even if the number of violent corrupt bastards is small, we should still treat them all like that, after all, that's what they do with us. Also, in most cases, there are two types of cops. The corrupt ones, and the ones that cover for them.