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Should police officers be required to wear body cameras?

In 2021 the U.S. Justice Department announced that federal agents would be required to wear body cameras when executing arrest warrants or searching buildings. A 2022 Bureau of Justice Statistics report found that 80% of local police departments in the US used body cameras. The study found that departments that used body cameras showed improvement in officer safety, increased evidence quality and reduced civilian complaints.

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78%
Yes
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10%
Yes, this will protect the safety and rights of police officers and citizens
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No, it should be a police department’s or officer’s choice to wear one
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Yes, but only for patrol officers in high crime areas

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 @5LDXQRMfrom Illinois  answered…6yrs6Y

Only In black towns/ neighborhoods

 @8XLR4JX  from North Carolina  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, and there should be clear consequences for tampering with the device’s footage.

 @56WTPKPfrom Vermont  answered…6yrs6Y

No, police should be retrained to deescalate high-tension situations and react to dangerous suspects with less lethal force. The reason a criminal isn't afraid to shoot a cop is the same reason a soldier isn't afraid to shoot his opponent in battle. If you threaten another person with death, expect them to fight like hell to kill you first. Furthermore, police accused of abusing their power should be tried as if they never had a badge in the first place. Murder is murder regardless of who kills who.

 @8LXQB35 from Georgia  answered…6yrs6Y

Yes, the cameras never lie. That would help keep officers out of prison and help a lot with the investigations.

 @5J4LQMBfrom Illinois  answered…6yrs6Y

Yes!!! And if anyone fails to do what a man of the law says, like "stop, hands up, etc.", then the policeman has the lawful right to arrest you. If you try to shoot him, he can defend himself and shoot you. If you shoot a policeman, you should be arrested and the punishment should be you life's punishment, no exceptions, no parole.

 @5LDN8JLfrom Georgia  answered…6yrs6Y

Yes but they should be able to be activated by dispatch officers, not the police officer.

 @8FK9394 from Illinois  answered…6yrs6Y

No, it gives too much leverage to the pigs

 @57JJ5STfrom Ohio  answered…6yrs6Y

Regardless, eliminate all tax-based police departments and allow the free market to provide police services

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2yrs2Y

Ohio officer charged with murder after fatally shooting pregnant woman

An Ohio police officer was charged with murder Tuesday for shooting and killing a pregnant woman during a confrontation in a grocery store parking lot last August.As Ta’Kiya Young sat in her car, Blendon Township police officer Connor Grubb and another officer approached her to accuse her of stealing from the store. In an interaction captured on body-camera footage, the officers ordered Young to exit her vehicle as she denied shoplifting. The car then began to move forward, and Grubb fired a shot that struck Young through her windshield, killing her and her unborn child.Grubb faces two counts of murder and felonious assault each for the deaths of Young, 21, and her fetus, along with two counts of involuntary manslaughter related to the death of the fetus. Felonious assault is sometimes called “felony murder.”On Aug. 24, an employee of a Kroger grocery store in Westerville, Ohio, told Grubb and the other officer, who has not been identified, that Young had stolen bottles of alcohol and then gotten into a car.Body-camera footage shows the other officer repeatedly asking Young to exit the vehicle as Grubb moves to stand in front of it. Young can be heard saying no and denying that she stole anything.Then Young turned the car’s steering wheel and the vehicle moved forward, the video shows. Grubb, who was standing in front of the car with his gun drawn, fired a shot into the windshield, striking Young.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2yrs2Y

Trump's Deportation Storm: America Braces for Mass Exodus of Immigrants

For months, immigration advocates have been planning for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now, their worst fears have arrived.Immigrants’ rights groups have spent the last year preparing for a second Trump term and an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, analyzing Trump’s proposals, drafting legal briefs, coordinating messaging and organizing aid for immigrants and asylum seekers. They responded to Trump’s victory with alarm and vowed to put up a fight, setting the stage for four more years of contentious court battles with his administration.Some are already preparing to push current leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to take steps to stymie the incoming Trump team, particularly on immigrant detention and the use of AI in enforcement.“We should expect to see the devastation of immigrant communities all over the country. We should expect to see family separation,” said Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center. “It is entirely possible that he will try to use the military to carry out deportations, so that means that Americans all over the country will see the military engaging in enforcement against civilian populations, which is horrifying.”Trump, after winning a historic victory on a platform of turbo-charged immigration enforcement, has said he will conduct mass deportations at a scale never before seen. Immigrant advocates have warned this would be expensive and inhumane, separating families and wrecking communities. The president-elect has also vowed to build huge detention camps, hire thousands more border agents, funnel military spending toward border security and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without court hearings.He has also said he would end “catch-and-release” — allowing migrants to remain free, often with monitoring, while they await immigration court hearings — and restore a policy from his first term requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are processed. And he has dodged questions about whether he would try to bring back family separation.

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