Duncan Fuller, on the process of negotiating car and body cameras into FPD
practice,
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» "… most likely, there would be a financial incentive required."
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…[IF] such cameras are good for
• police, to defend against false accusations of misbehavior, validate
accusations against evildoers, and provide visual evidence of events for
post hoc analysis or policy recommendations,
and
• the population, to inhibit police misbehavior and provide better
evidence of what happens in police interactions,
and
• government, that pays to employ police authorized to use possibly deadly
force on the people it purports to serve, and could face severe financial
penalties (eventually compensated by the taxpayers) if someone does
something seriously wrong,
… [AND]
• the police are already adequately compensated, under the terms and for
the duration of their negotiated contracts (or why do they stay with their
jobs?)
… [THEN] the idea that
• the police must be enticed, with extra money, to use a tool that
improves everybody's situation, or they will reject the idea
• and the entities employing them will be unable to overcome any such
objections without amercing the population yet more to make the right thing
happen,
… … is a damning indictment of every part of the body politic touching
upon any aspect of police operations, from imputed cupidity (or a need to
be paid not to break the law themselves) by the police, to fecklessness by
politicans and budgeteers, to indifference, stupidity, and sluggardliness
by the people.
I hope none of those negative imaginations is even remotely accurate.
I accuse nobody of any malign intent, greed or some other symptom of
excessive self-interest, failure of understanding, need to grandstand, or
lack of the requisite energy to contribute that which is necessary to
achieve an optimal solution.
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PS: I have no current complaints against any FPD member. This posting
scratches a generalized itch, not a personal one.