Police complaints drop over 90% after deploying body cameras
Oh gee, you mean to tell me the criminals in uniform out there to "serve and protect" us suddenly stop violating our rights when they MIGHT be held accountable?  I say "might" because there is still no guarantee since the blue wall of bullshit is quite dense.<p>93% is an absolutely staggering statistic.  No other change to police policy even comes close.  And the beauty of it is that in addition to hopefully clamping down on bad cops, it also has the delightful use of protecting and exonerating the good ones who receive knowingly false complaints from people who are just being spiteful against cops that arrested them.<p>93% is a number that cannot be ignored.  This, alone, is reason enough to justify the cost to get every single cop in this country suited up with a camera.  It keeps everyone in check and acts as expert testimony that produces (in most cases) crystal clear memory of events for everyone to examine.<p>As a white male growing up in a very diverse area with a fairly high percentage of minorities, I never really believed those who claimed seemingly unbelievable stories of police mistreatment and excessive force.  I had never personally experienced it, nor even bore witness to it at any time.  I thought they were all lying through their teeth to stick to a claim of innocence and how the police steamrolled them.  Now, looking back, I am left wondering how many of those stories were true.  And I grew up in the 90's!  I can't even imagine what really went on in the 60's and 70's.<p>Far too often we see videos detailing out horrible acts by law enforcement.  Acts that if anyone without a badge were commit, EVEN IN SELF-DEFENSE, would in many cases land us in jail for a very, very long time.  I wonder how many people I grew up with have criminal records today simply because they weren't the correct skin color.