Body Cameras protect children, alleged criminals, those with mental health issues, the homeless, reputations, taxpayers and yes Eau Claire Law Enforcement.
(Risks & Rewards)
Human Element:
Save's very valuable lives
Least amount of trauma on children, victims, criminals, families and officers
Preemptive visual measure to change the mindsets in an effort to deescalate situations
Encouraging restraint through visual suggestion. (Were “all” being recorded)
Officers, families & alleged criminal can sleep easy knowing the body camera wont lie
Establishing Civilian Complaint Review Boards
Reputations, integrity, morals and ethics are never compromised
Municipal Liability:
Multi-million dollar civil rights lawsuits
Claims of creative reporting and cover-ups
Claims of excessive use of force
Claims of police and Drug Task Force brutality
Claims of human and civil rights abuses
Claims of racism and discrimination
Claims of inappropriate pat downs
Claims of “Blue Code of Silence”
Claims of cozy relationships between D.A offices and law enforcement.
Mental Health:
Communities backlash in excessive force of the mentally ill and or mentally handicapped
Perceived lack of restraint, procedure, protocol, process and training.
How to best approach and deescalate someone with a mental health issues.
Provides mental health experts real-time situations that can better facilitate case studies
Prosecutorial:
Perceived prosecutorial misconduct by the community and media
Withholding evidence to insure outcome
Witness tampering: on and off duty police intimidation of principal witnesses to a D.A. subpoena
HR and superior Intimidation of officers
Cozy relationships between D.A’s and law enforcement
Private Contractor:
Claims of targeting, tracking, following, intimidating and electronically water boarding communications of officers, witnesses, families and alleged criminals without oversight to insure a solid prosecutorial win
Media:
Copying and pasting expedited police press releases without vetting the narrative(s).
Bias reporting of demographics, groups, organization and businesses.
Media keeping good rapport with law enforcement for the next big story even it requires compromising journalistic truth.
Sensationalizing a police press release without evidence base journalism for the sake of advertising revenue.
Training:
Provides valuable real-time training video footage for agencies and those in the mental health industry.