BODY CAMERAS???

The proposed ideal of police officers wearing body cameras is almost laughable. I can't count the many times that we all have seen a officer caught on camera behaving in the wrong manner, or violating someone's rights, and still was not held accountable for his or her actions. Or they try to tell us that we're not really seeing what we think that we're seeing, when we clearly are. I mean, it sounds good... But it has been shown over and over and over, and in far too many cases that a camera was there, and it still didn't make a difference, when it should have.

Prime example, the Eric Garner case in New York. How can anyone in their right mind look at that video and say that it wasn't excessive force used by the police for the situation? How can anyone look at that video objectively and say that it wasn't a choke hold used by the police officer? You can try to put as many on it as you want, call it any kind of tactic or technique you want. That was a choke hold. Anything that has to do with the neck, the throat, or the windpipe is just asking for trouble.

But yet still, although it was caught on video, the grand jury still didn't feel that it was enough to at least send it to a trial. A man is dead over what seemed to be something very petty, and its all caught on video for the world to see. But that still wasn't enough. That gives us no reason to expect that a body camera on police officers will make a damn bit of difference. Because if they are guilty of doing something wrong... They will just find a way to cover it up, or justify it.