The Body Camera Doesn’t Lie: Officer Tensing Executed Samuel DuBose In Cold Blood
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    The Body Camera Doesn’t Lie: Officer Tensing Executed Samuel DuBose In Cold Blood

    Here is one of, if not the biggest reasons why KV does not want body cam's.
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    Hamilton Country Prosecutor Joseph T. Deters announced Wednesday afternoon that murder charges will be filed against University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing for the shooting death of Sam Dubose, an African-American man who was pulled over for a minor traffic violation.

    Prosecutor Deters, himself a two-time graduate of the University of Cincinnati, said he was treating officer Tensing as "a murderer," calling his shooting "the most asinine thing" he'd ever seen on the job.

    Dubose was shot directly in the head by Officer Tensing.

    "He wasn't dealing with someone who was wanted for murder, he was dealing with someone who didn't have a license plate," Deters said. "If he's rolling away let him go, don't shoot him in the head. It was... a chicken-crap pull over [to begin with]"

    The long-time prosecutor was unequivocal, "It's bad what he did and it shouldn't have happened." He went on to say Hamilton Country authorities would seek life in prison.

    The initial police report by UC police said the officer was dragged by Dubose. The video shows that Tensing simply fell backwards after discharging his weapon at Dubose's head.
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    How many arrest reports, PCA's have some of ower self initiative complaints are guilty of this kind of incident? Regadless of the out come of the case, does the end justify the means.

    I think the North Port public at large would be shocked at the amount of officer initiated cases that are generated by bullshit.
    The paper monster must be fed or our budget will be cut.

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    What is a real big joke is how Kevin acts like he is so concerned about weeding out bad apple rouge officers.
    If he is so worried about such officers, why has he not gotten body cams yet?

    He has however asked for more then half a million dollars for a new responce team. The price of body cams for the whole department would be a fraction of that.

    So just how concerned is the chief in weeding out the bad apples here?

    Wondre why the current Mrs. Chief has not come to her husbands defense as she as done in the past when his neck gets in a ringer.

    Just incase none of the admin no where to find such body cams, here you go. http://shop.gopro.com/

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    Does NPPD have an official position on body cameras? City hall defers to Chief Vespia requesting such. Is there an official reason why there is a resistance to body cameras?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stephanie Gibson View Post
    Is there an official reason why there is a resistance to body cameras?
    Not an official one Stephanie. However the unofficial reason is what happened to the University of Cincinnati officer is why admin wants nothing to do with them. It is hard enough for them to find some way to agree with the questionable actions of some of our officers. Having a video from a body cam would make it impossible for them to spin the actions of a problem officers.

    There are several over aggressive officer that do not work on any special squad. Now the cheif wants to have such a squad consisting of this type of officer at a price tag of over half a million dollars.
    He will get it just like he got his special IA and PR officers. The city admin has given Kevin an unlimted checking account for what he wants. That is if we need it or not.

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    Lyons: Why are some sheriffs trashing body cameras?

    By Tom Lyons

    Published: Monday, August 3, 2015 at 4:21 p.m.


    Sheriffs and police chiefs in Manatee and Sarasota counties don’t all agree totally on how fast their agencies should move toward the routine use of police body cameras, I realize.
    But judging by quotes in a column by Tampa Bay Times columnist Sue Carlton, none are as behind the curve as some top cops on her side of the Sunshine Skyway.
    Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, for instance, is quoted explaining why he’s bucking the cop cam trend. He insists they won't fix any mistrust of law enforcement and he suggests they could make things worse.
    He seems to resent the whole concept.
    "A body camera's not going to build that trust," Gualtieri told the Times. "If cops … need a camera on them to do the right thing, boy, we've got a problem.”
    Well, that’s the point, sheriff. We do have a problem. Haven’t you been paying attention?
    Everyone else now knows that no matter how rare bad behavior might be in your agency, there are some law officers who do bad things or foul up big time and then lie about it. The lies tend to falsely put blame on the person shot or brutalized or otherwise mistreated.
    Sorry, but it happens. We just don’t know how often. And we know that cops can usually get away with it.
    One reason is that we normally do believe what cops say. We do tend to trust them. We now also know that cameras of one sort or another have been the obvious and major new way we find out about some that can’t be trusted because they do things we like to think none ever would.
    Yes, some people overreact, as should be expected when they see images of law officers shooting people totally without cause. The sheriff is right to worry that, though such terrible actions are exceptions, some assume they are more common.
    But he is still missing the point. Too many videos of cops behaving badly have made the Internet rounds in the past few years for anyone to now be unaware of them. And so, despite advances in training and professionalism, more people realize now that the problem goes beyond cops being human, fallible and imperfect. We know that some are flat out terrible at their jobs, and some treat the badge as a license to bully.
    We also know that you sheriffs and police chiefs have often been unable to know who your bad cops are, or at least you fail to get rid of them. Video evidence can help you there, and also will force you to act even if you would rather not.
    In St. Petersburg, though Chief Tony Holloway said the cameras have some good points, he still seemingly lamented the cop cam trend.
    "Are we in this world now where we don't trust anything?" he asked.
    Give me a break, chief. You think all cops are 100 percent trustworthy? Does your department not have an internal investigations department? I have to get wanded just to go to a Rays game in your city, but you feel peevish about all cops not getting our total blind faith?
    Maybe most irritating of all, thanks to his grasping for excuses not to use cop cams, was Hillsborough Sheriff David Gee. He fears, as Carlton put it, that “body cameras would take away an officer's discretion to, say, give one ticket instead of four that could be justified.”
    “You're going to get the robot," Gee claimed. "He's going to be on film."
    Say what? Sheriff Gee, you seriously want us to worry that your deputies won’t feel comfortable being reasonable if their superiors — that is, you — can watch them on video?
    Give me a break. That would be true only if you are demanding that they be robotic jerks and max out all possible tickets. If so, then we need a sheriff cam on you.
    Sorry it is so, but some cops need more monitoring than they now get — and no one thinks the problem is cops being too nice.
    — The columnist can be reached at tom.lyons@heraldtribune.com





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    I think the North Port public at large would be shocked at the amount of officer initiated cases that are generated by bullshit.
    The paper monster must be fed or our budget will be cut.
    Hey I.T. guy? How many dash cam videos requested by defense council have we supposedly been unable to supply because they were "ACCIDENTLY DESTROYED" while being copyed?

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    When Chief Vespia?

    http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20151012/ARTICLE/151019909/2416/NEWS?Title=Police-body-cameras-reduce-use-of-force-study-finds

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