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LA Police Officers Suspected of Tampering With Their Monitoring Systems
An anonymous reader writes "An internal audit conducted by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in March revealed that 'dozens of the [voice] transmitters worn by officers in Southeast Division were missing or damaged.' In the summer of 2013, this same division was found to have mysteriously lost 45% of the antennae placed on their cars to pick up the signals sent by their voice transmitters. The Southeast Division of the LAPD covers an area that has 'historically been marred by mistrust and claims of officer abuse.' For decades, the LAPD had been closely monitored by the U.S. Department of Justice, but a federal judge in 2013 decided to end that practice after being assured by the LAPD and city officials that the LAPD sufficiently monitors itself via dash-cams and voice transmitters. A formal investigation is currently being conducted to determine whether or not police officers intentionally subverted mandatory efforts to monitor and record their patrols."
How would you like to have your every move and word recorded and transmitted by your employer every second of every working day? I don't condone police abuse but this level of intrusion seems extreme to me.
I would simply summarily execute any cop whose recording gear malfunctioned at a critical time. They'd get the same fair trial they give to the people they murder and beat and frame for crimes they never committed.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
Unions work to protect workers from a bad boss. The police work for society at large. Who are they unionizing against? Society at large?
Yes.