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Originally Posted by TryToFindmid
No arguments here.
I keep saying I have no idea why ALL cops dont have cameras that are on ALL the time they are on duty.
And if the footage is not pending review or not being used in a trial ALL of it should be available to anyone requesting it for review if they were involved.
This mess is so much bigger in scale and I dont understand why it isnt being looked at in that light more so.
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I think cameras aren't championed by police not because they won't work, but because they would work too well. I think every time a government entity deosn't want to do the right thing it boils down to economics.
Don't take this as a defense by me as I don't believe in it, but lets say the Portland police bureau has roughly 1000 officers. Now if 1% of those officers get caught making a "mistake" that would be 10 prosecutions/convictions. Now lets say each one of those gets a 10 million dollar payout. The payout may not be that high to the victim, but after paying costs of all things involved with the prosecution including wages and legal fees I don't think its out of line. The highest cases could easily be more. That is 50 million or 20% of the whole police budget. Now that is just with 1% of the force making one "mistake" in the course of a year.
Those numbers are probably very conservative for Portland, but rather laughable for other cities in the country. No, the offenses won't typically be mistakes, that is just the word I chose for ease of writing.