{"id":133271,"date":"2017-04-15T14:30:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T20:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/15\/police-body-cameras-arent-enough.html"},"modified":"2017-04-15T14:30:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T20:30:34","slug":"police-body-cameras-arent-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/15\/police-body-cameras-arent-enough.html","title":{"rendered":"Police body cameras aren&#039;t enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having the tool is very important, but having clear policies on how and when to use it, how to address privacy concerns (citizenry and police alike), how to make the footage available to the public and interested parties, and how to deal with future technological advances like facial recognition &#8212; not to mention dealing with data retention costs, etc. &#8212; are just as important as the tool itself, even when given to departments for free.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/04\/tasers-free-body-cameras-good-cops-not-people\/?mbid=social_gplus'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/XTXMpeFlgiDEGHFW94ZLq3NIAK0d6Y6S8-XGrnuUUbXS4WFIIdpffuo3bcwWgAR_aDhgHAZXefQxNHTkIMvF9Xs66ArT_dIhKMNNBsC62MuPfLf2QFazGSzEhXqNGPjaRo_p91hWBAg=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/04\/tasers-free-body-cameras-good-cops-not-people\/?mbid=social_gplus'>Taser&rsquo;s Free Body Cameras Are Good for Cops, Not the People | WIRED<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nOpinion: Free body cameras may help police, but they come at a cost to civil liberties.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/ffdjTZcLKEt'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having the tool is very important, but having clear policies on how and when to use it, how to address privacy concerns (citizenry and police alike), how to make the footage available to the public and interested parties, and how to deal with future technological advances like facial recognition &#8212; not to mention dealing with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/15\/police-body-cameras-arent-enough.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Police body cameras aren&#039;t enough&#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_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136306,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/07\/a-monopoly-on-providing-police-body-cameras-what-can-go-wrong.html","url_meta":{"origin":133271,"position":0},"title":"A monopoly on providing police body cameras &#8230; what can go wrong?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 7-May-18 7:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Monopolies are generally not good. 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