Body Cameras

 I never used a body camera, not once in 37 years of police work,   They came at the end of my career, and the agency I worked for was just beginning to learn how to best use them (and store millions of gigabits  of video as I was nearing retirement.

I argued against body cameras, because I felt that a police officers word should suffice.  Yet, I've changed my mind, because people who want to mis-use or abuse the police will stop at nothing to achieve their aims.   If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a thousand sentences.

The last fifteen years of my career was spent inthe schools, as a resource officer.  I did good police work during those fifteen years, and there were some times when I did police work that could have benefited from the use of a body camera.  However, I knew that the schools had surveillance cameras and I knew that whatever I had to do was probably captured on one or more of those cameras.

I made good use of those surveillance cameras, saving footage that I thought was appropriate.  They added another layer to the files, and if there was any question, all we had to do was roll the tape.

The left is finding out that camera footage is a good thing.  But not necessarily in a way that they wished.

 Leftists are actually disappointed that body cameras show police officers are NOT oppressing people of color. What we HAVE seen is heroic police work while officers deal with horrific criminal behavior.

Yep.  Good cops should never be afraid of video footage.