St. Petersburg approves buying 500 body cameras for its police force

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"Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, who had long resisted body cameras, announced two weeks ago that he will outfit all of his patrol deputies, nearly 800, with the devices."

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Can’t wait to see the 1000s of videos showing how ridiculous people treat the police on a daily basis. ACLU already doesn’t like them. Let’s put on tv how people treat cops

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Can’t wait to see the 1000s of videos showing how ridiculous people treat the police on a daily basis. ACLU already doesn’t like them. Let’s put on tv how people treat cops

Bob finally caved in to political pressure from BLM, ACLU, DNC, etc. for votes and accepted body cams as legitimate tools. The videos' real purpose is to keep cops in line, weed out the bad ones, and provide evidence to prosecute cases, in that order. It is a management took which has been used at the jail for the last 15 years. 90% of the time the videos have been used to nail deputies and justify disciplinary actions. Bob will have the final word on how and if the videos will be used and released to the public.