{"id":129584,"date":"2016-01-31T00:42:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T07:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/31\/when-police-accountability-is-in-the-hands-of-unaccountable-police.html"},"modified":"2016-01-31T23:01:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T06:01:13","slug":"when-police-accountability-is-in-the-hands-of-unaccountable-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/31\/when-police-accountability-is-in-the-hands-of-unaccountable-police.html","title":{"rendered":"When police accountability is in the hands of unaccountable police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, dash cams are really valuable in confirming whether or not police have behaved appropriately. So what does it mean when they keep being &quot;damaged&quot; or &quot;misused&quot; by police?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2016\/01\/29\/80-percent-of-chicago-pd-dash-cam-videos-are-missing-audio-due-to-officer-error-or-intentional-destruction\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/dQgSIgyrIl8JykPVm6jHtbm7bR2cEa7B34myaIrNKtCJ5mi9oedzHzoXlh0hc0WP-2CXReEgxjnaQdq_tGfBE2gB62GFRNVfr-5rfCajno0KFrYW4tPBFb5cNugouRuCGtLaalsYLvwtZDxHreIT_d74fAbxSE1Z9KJxW8-E5UEX12I3npi_C5BQuxbAyvTj8A=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2016\/01\/29\/80-percent-of-chicago-pd-dash-cam-videos-are-missing-audio-due-to-officer-error-or-intentional-destruction\/'>80 percent of Chicago PD dash-cam videos are missing audio due to &lsquo;officer error&rsquo; or &lsquo;intentional destruction&rsquo;<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAnd the problem isn&#8217;t limited to Chicago.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Ls2wEWysP7G'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, dash cams are really valuable in confirming whether or not police have behaved appropriately. So what does it mean when they keep being &quot;damaged&quot; or &quot;misused&quot; by police? 80 percent of Chicago PD dash-cam videos are missing audio due to &lsquo;officer error&rsquo; or &lsquo;intentional destruction&rsquo; And the problem isn&#8217;t limited to Chicago. View on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/31\/when-police-accountability-is-in-the-hands-of-unaccountable-police.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When police accountability is in the hands of unaccountable police&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41177,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/oh-look-dash-cam-footage-indicts-more-cops.html","url_meta":{"origin":129584,"position":0},"title":"Oh, look, dash cam footage indicts more cops","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Feb-14 10:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"Strangely enough, it's dash cam footage that the cops never turned over to prosecutors or the defense -- and footage without which an innocent man would have been sent to jail.Makes you wonder about other convicts who claim they're innocent. 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