At least 1,201 people were killed in 2022 by law enforcement officers, about 100 deaths a month, according to Mapping Police Violence, a nonprofit research group that tracks police killings. ProPublica examined the 101 deaths that occurred in June 2022, a time frame chosen because enough time had elapsed that investigations could reasonably be expected to have concluded. The cases involved 131 law enforcement agencies in 34 states.
In 79 of those deaths, ProPublica confirmed that body-worn camera video exists. But more than a year later, authorities or victims’ families had released the footage of only 33 incidents.
Philadelphia signed a $12.5 million contract in 2017 to equip its entire police force with cameras. Since then, at least 27 people have been killed by Philadelphia police, according to Mapping Police Violence, but in only two cases has body-camera video been released to the public.
ProPublica’s review shows that withholding body-worn camera footage from the public has become so entrenched in some cities that even pleas from victims’ families don’t serve to shake the video loose.
Well you didn’t do something silly like give control over the means of monitoring the police to only the police right? . . . right?
You bring up a fair point. This should be investigated. In the interest of fairness let the investigation be handled by the police.
If nothing else, the lack of shown footage should be shifting some mindsets about police.
“What a load of criminals complaining about everything. Obviously, our boys in blue would never do anything suspect, as you’ll see now that they can show you footage of their own perfectly orderly arrests.”
“They all keep their cameras off and never turn over body cam footage.”
“B-…huh? But…they’re noble protectors that have nothing to hide…! Why would they…?”Conservatives will literally reply to that with:
Sotimes you gotta rough up the bad guys so they learn not to do it. It’s a cops god given right to sort out the bad apples like that, they just turn the cam off because the LIBRULS would take them over coals for doing gods work
…most of the footage is kept from public view
Well yeah, unedited video footage has this odd tendency to exonerate the innocent and impugn the guilty
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Claim that reform will do thing.
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Reform fails to do thing.
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Cries of surprise from assembly.
The problem is that the reform was supposed to add accountability. But if the public can’t access the footage and police are free to “accidentally” turn their bodycams off before or “oopsie woopsie I deleted the footage” after they break the law there’s zero accountability, and therefore no meaningful reform.
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It’s almost like you can’t force people to try to fix an irrevocably broken system because you’re afraid of living without it
It’s almost like we should have overthrown them or something
It’s almost like everyone was propagandized into accepting band aid solutions and refused to listen when they were told it wouldn’t work
Abolish police.
There’s no “reforming” a system that was BUILT this way.
I don’t want to hear it. Find another place to lick boots.
The system in the USA is built this way. There are countries in the world where police officers act professionally and can be trusted.
We don’t want a lawless, free for all place without any law enforcement, we deserve a proper force, trained to behave in a professional manner, and monitored to do so.
You could describe the deep reform needed as “abolish and then build from the ground”, but that’s a matter of how to reach the goal, rather than a change in the goal itself’.
The watering down of “Defund the Police” for more palatable public consumption was a travesty.
“Oh no, we’re reasonable! We just want the police to have access to more training and better tools to engage with the public!”
No, we wanted them gone, from the ground up.
It definitely showed just how powerful and overwhelming copaganda is. “Defund the Police” really struck a nerve with the people who hold the power in US society, I think we should keep striking that nerve.
You say it’s boot licking to question you, which in itself is fucking retarded.
But I want to hear your plan.
Say we abolish the police - what next?
How many of those same police departments willingly released certain footage though as defense of their own officers in court after careful review and redaction?
There is no such thing as reforming the Police. They are an evil collective of people.
I disagree. Just saw a video on krudplug of a cop shooting a guy right before he can cut up a lady with a butcher knife.
There are crazy, dangerous people in the world. If you can’t fight and you don’t own a gun, you are at the mercy of others to protect you.
I think it’s sad how the vast majority of people who are anti-cop cannot fight and do not own guns. Did they see what happened in CHAZ?
What if I’m physically disabled? Which literally everyone is, in relation to a stronger individual or group (and there’s literally always someone/something bigger than you)… Does that mean I don’t have the “right” to be anti-murder, even if the murderer is someone with a badge?
Or maybe there’s a sliding scale, with how much of a position of principle that I’m allowed hold correlating proportionally to how much I can bench or how quickly I can subdue an opponent?
That sounds pretty fascist.
Does that mean I don’t have the “right” to be anti-murder
I’m not going to take your bad-faith arguments seriously. Goodbye.
It’s exaggerated to make a point, not a bad-faith argument. Try reading the rest of the comment, boss…
Your position appears to rest on the idea that people who need protection somehow don’t have the right to hold positions of principle against murdering police that in theory might also protect them in some scenario. Idk, it sounds either fascist, or like you really haven’t thought things through enough…
Sure.
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Just saw a video on
Is this the video you saw?
There are crazy, dangerous people in the world.
Yes. And they become a whole lot more dangerous once they get a badge.
No, Clyde… there is no such thing as a “good” cop.
Okay. Call up your friend who can’t fight and doesn’t own a gun to protect you when someone wants something you have.
Do you think cops can teleport or something
No, that’s why we should also have the means to defend ourselves. It doesn’t make sense to hate cops while you’re incapable of defending yourself.
Funny how you completely ignore that part of my argument, lol.
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Wonder why that is…
…isn’t there a way to legally request any video footage? That’s how all those body-cam yt channels get their footage from, by placing requests in. I thought it was a federal law that you can obtain any police cam video.
Yes you can request the footage, and they can also bury you in red tape until you give up the request.
So many yt channels gotta be buried. Kinda hard to understand why creators would keep doing that, right?
Because the footage those auditors have are just 1st amendment other rights violations.
There are worst things the police want buried.
In ‘news that was incredibly obvious from the start’…no shit sherlock.
