...To lawyers, it is a rational choice to say nothing rather than risk saying the wrong thing. Or the right thing the wrong way and having it be an issue later...
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...To lawyers, it is a rational choice to say nothing rather than risk saying the wrong thing. Or the right thing the wrong way and having it be an issue later...
Seems odd, aren't police required to cooperate with IA or their equivalent? I can understanding having a lawyer or union rep present, but declining entirely seems shady.
He's a public servant payed by taxpayers. He shouldn't be able to hide behind his lawyer. Hopefully a witness will come out and tell what happened. If cops refuse to turn their cameras on then it's up to citizens to record the transactions between police and the public to make sure everything is by the book.
So he forfeits his constitutional rights because he's a government employee? Please cite where that is covered in the founding documents.
So he forfeits his constitutional rights because he's a government employee? Please cite where that is covered in the founding documents.
If "he feared for his life" is used as a defense...
So he forfeits his constitutional rights because he's a government employee? Please cite where that is covered in the founding documents.
When your job is to enforce the laws on other people you should be held to higher standards.
When your job is to enforce the laws on other people you should be held to higher standards.
Being held to higher standards is quite different from surrendering Constitutional Rights afforded to all citizens.
I'm not an expert, but am a major tech geek. From my understanding, MOST systems activate with the lights because nobody gives a sh** what is going on in front of the car while you are sitting eating a donut, writing a report, waiting for a speeder, etc. Its only when the lights come on that they really care. And by using that mechanism, they dont have to worry about "oops. I forgot to turn it on." And as I recall at least one system is ALWAYS recording. It just dumps x seconds of "tape" after recording if it is not needed. That way when they turn on the lights they already have a jump start with video x seconds before the lights come on in case they turned them on for what happened a few seconds prior and want the actual infraction on video. (catch a guy blowing past at double the speed limit, etc) Dont turn your lights on at all that day? ALL of your dash cam footage is dumped as fast as it is recorded to temporary space.I've never had an in car camera, so I'm the wrong person to ask. I neither know nor care how they work.
It's in the basement of the Alamo with Pee-Wee's bike.
I'm not an expert, but am a major tech geek. From my understanding, MOST systems activate with the lights because nobody gives a sh** what is going on in front of the car while you are sitting eating a donut, writing a report, waiting for a speeder, etc. Its only when the lights come on that they really care. And by using that mechanism, they dont have to worry about "oops. I forgot to turn it on." And as I recall at least one system is ALWAYS recording. It just dumps x seconds of "tape" after recording if it is not needed. That way when they turn on the lights they already have a jump start with video x seconds before the lights come on in case they turned them on for what happened a few seconds prior and want the actual infraction on video. (catch a guy blowing past at double the speed limit, etc) Dont turn your lights on at all that day? ALL of your dash cam footage is dumped as fast as it is recorded to temporary space.
Why not save it all? Assuming 75 cars a day (3 25 car shifts) running video full time would be about 400gig of video a day. And that is conservative. (h.264, D1, 6k/frame, 30FPS for you geeks) That is roughly 150TB a year in storage needs. And assuming you cant just keep the prior year's runs, multiply that by however many years you need and that equals some VERY expensive storage. 6 figueres worth per year, easy. Its not as easy as running down to Best buy and throwing another $80 hard drive into the server to add more space. Even if you could, you'd be doing so every week and would run out of bays fast.
Now lets say we trigger based on lights. Assuming they spend 3 hours a day doing stuff with the blinkies going (aiming high again) thats only 121Gb/45TB (day/year) . Still not small/cheap, but more manageable. And who wants to pay to store all that boring footage that is worthless anyway?
Oh, and I'm only assuming dash cams. Add in body cams for each officer and it grows by an additional 600GB/year per officer. (based on 3 hours of video/shift)
I got to visit the Alamo as a side outing on a business trip. It took every ounce of control to not ask a worker where the basement was. (only because they're sick of it and I'd be the only one to think it was funny)
Coonfingering ?????
Yes, be careful. It's like Beetlejuice. If you say that word 3 times on INGO, Kirk Freeman appears.Careful...
So the cop shoots this lady and gets put on paid leave. How is this equal to what would happen to a person who isn't a cop if they shot this lady?
There's a civilian-on-civilian fatal shooting being investigated in my county right now where one party was unarmed. The shooter has claimed self defense and is walking free pending forensics to confirm or deny. I won't say anything else in a public format other than its...certainly not clear it's a good shoot.
This one made the news awhile back: Murder suspect arrested after shooting over dog dispute | Fox 59
Guy was released until a murder charge was decided upon 6 days after the shooting.
Do you think non-LEO instantly go to jail when they shoot someone? Or do you think murder investigations are done instantly? Or do you think that because someone is not arrested while the investigation is ongoing that they never will be?
I don't think any of that. What I do know is that a civilian that is not a cop doesn't get a tax payer funded vacation.
I don't think any of that. What I do know is that a civilian that is not a cop doesn't get a tax payer funded vacation.