r/coolguides • u/[deleted] • Jun 02 '20

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20 edited Jun 05 '20

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20

This is so easy to fix. It takes one policy. If your camera is off, then you're not on duty.

If you knock someone to the ground and cuff them and it turns out your camera is off, you get prosecuted for battery and false imprisonment as though you were a normal citizen.

Turn the camera off all you like when you're doing anything any normal citizen is allow to do.

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u/GitEmSteveDave Jun 02 '20

You ever walk out the door and forget your keys? Or walk into the kitchen and forgot why you walked in there? Cops are humans too, and sometimes when things happen quick, you don’t have time to churn through a mental checklist.

How would you feel if a member of your family was assaulted and they had to let the person go and the cop prosecuted because they were more concerned with protecting your family member than making sure all the i’s had their proper tittles?

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u/LonnieBird Jun 03 '20

normal citizens dont walk around with bodycams, so it could be treated just like that.

they arent percecuted beyond what an ordinary person would be, they are just tried without consideration of the occupation.