It will be interesting to see how some of the access / privacy details are worked out. For example, the mike Brown shooting happened on a public street, but what if it had happened in a private residence? Would the police recording be publicly available?
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There are also innumerable instances of police providing damaged, incorrect, or no footage at all even of events that were filmed. The Ferguson police, after beating a handcuffed man in a jail cell and then charging him for destruction of property for getting blood on their uniforms (no link, easy to google), submitted jail footage that was a) 12x speed, rendering it useless, and b) of a different time than the incident. Simply capturing video is not enough, it must be stored and later provisioned by a 3rd party.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/mike-brown-law-req...
It will be interesting to see how some of the access / privacy details are worked out. For example, the mike Brown shooting happened on a public street, but what if it had happened in a private residence? Would the police recording be publicly available?
Edit: There are also innumerable instances of police providing damaged, incorrect, or no footage at all even of events that were filmed. The Ferguson police, after beating a handcuffed man in a jail cell and then charging him for destruction of property for getting blood on their uniforms (no link, easy to google), submitted jail footage that was a) 12x speed, rendering it useless, and b) of a different time than the incident. Simply capturing video is not enough, it must be stored and later provisioned by a 3rd party.