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CAMERAs are necessary (self-defense)
“Glik v. Cunniffe, 655 F.3d 78 (1st Cir. 2011) is a case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that a private citizen has the right to record video and audio of police carrying out their duties in a public place, and that the arrest of the citizen for a wiretapping violation violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights.”
“New York City became one of the first large departments to adopt body cameras in 2013 after a federal court found police wrongly targeted minorities with a stop-and-frisk program, and many more joined amid the national outpouring of protest after the 2014 death of Michael Brown at the hands of police in Ferguson, Missouri.”-AP news
TRANSPARENCY
ACCOUNTABILITY? NOT YET.
“Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras”-ProPublica
This is why all four must come as a package; 1. cameras in every courtroom, 2. transparency, 3. accountability, and 3. abolition of any form of immunity with ALL public servants.
“Qualified Immunity: A Legal, Practical, and Moral Failure.”-Cato Institute (link)
“If we the people must follow the law, our government must follow the Constitution.
But a tangled web of legal doctrines effectively places government workers above the law by making it nearly impossible for individuals to hold them accountable for violations of constitutional rights.”-IJ (link)