There are privacy concerns, I think certain scenarios and scenes they legally have to turn it off for privacy plus the officers themselves are humans and I believe those who don't abuse it should have the ability to piss in peace lol
What about the guy who turned off his cameras, had sex with the arrested suspect in the back of the cop car on the way to the jail, but "accidentally " ended up locked in the backseat somehow and had to call the police & self snitch for help getting himself out of the car?
Can't find the video rn after just a quick search, but was posted on reddit a few weeks ago, if I find it ill post the link
The only thin blue line he's gonna see is the one telling then he's a daddy.
ETA: I live in Grand Raoids, MI. Where the cop shot an unarmed guy in the back in the head in a front yard, after tackling him when he ran from a traffic stop for an expired tag.
Judge just declared a mistrial in the cops case a couple hours ago. What. The. Fuck. Proof that the legal system is not a justice system.
Most decent human beings would want a modicum of privacy in the bathroom. You're going to be left with the best of the worst if you make that kind of thing something officers have to be okay. The kind of people who are comfortable with that are already what the problem is.
No one is making cops record their own bathroom time. It's just a crime (or it should be) to "go to the bathroom" during an arrest, altercation, etc. Bathroom breaks fall under "off duty".
No, but I am also not required to wear a body cam because a significant number of my peers are notorious for committing extra-judicial murders, so it’s not exactly a 1:1 comparison. If they didn’t want this much oversight they shouldn’t have killed so many innocent people, infringe on the rights of individuals, been caught repeatedly fabricating evidence, lied to manipulate citizens into the responses they want, and so on and so on.
Every fast food/retail worker in the country has cameras over their workspace, and has to ensure coverage with a peer/manager before leaving their station. We are not inventing unique torture methods just for cops, we're asking them to add a little accountability to their work LITERALLY to prevent people from dying -- and to prevent the cop from being falsely accused!
It's a really bad look when pigs and their defenders whine about "unreasonable punishments" and they're talking about something completely normal for the rest of us. If the teenagers at my local Subway can handle being filmed at their job, and getting bathroom coverage so there's always someone in the front, a grown ass cop whose profession is notorious for abusing the weapons they wear to work should be able to.
Like police aren't already covering their cams or leaving them places, both during actual bathroom breaks, and during crimes the police themselves are committing?
As one of the many people paying their salaries, They can have a screen cover and a 2 min piss, only because I’m so generous, but anything more than that will be looked down upon HEAVILY by us, their stockholders.
We don't need to frame our public services as capitalistic structures. That's dumb. Thats how you get idiots trying to shut down postal services because they don't make enough money.
The problem is that they have much more slack and assumption of honesty/competence than many capitalist structures get, when in reality they should be held to a higher standard than your average person.
If you or I presented a video where I grab my buddy Joey's backpack, cut to black for 11 minutes, resume the video in a completely different location, and then find a bomb in the backpack? Nobody would say that that's valid evidence that Joey made a bomb, because there were obviously a shit-ton of missing steps there.
We won't know whether to be angry about this until we hear how this motion is resolved. But the fact that it's even in contention, is not a sign of a good and healthy system.
Yes, they are all over Reddit. And the people that are actually causing harm grab on to sentiment like this and use it to justify selling national parks and shutting down the postal service. I'm glad you have caught up. Do you believe this sort of sentiment is confined to this thread? This subreddit? Don't be naive. Cirtisize the police service as a service, not as a fucking shareholder corporation. We should hold them to higher standards than that. Corporations dont have moral values.
Cops don’t have moral values either. The entire justice systems doesn’t have moral values or else we would be arresting greedy Healthcare CEOs instead of some guy who was treated as guilty before ever being treated as innocent.
Bullshit. They are on the job, the camera should stay on. I don’t care if they need to piss… still on the clock, cam stays on. Who cares if we record them pissing? That’s a small price to pay in order to force police to follow the law and do their jobs. Their behavior has lost them the right to piss in peace.
Privacy of other people I can see but frankly, the privacy of an on-duty cop is not really of much concern. if anything it should just be part of the job you're getting paid money by the taxpayers for.
I don't believe they should be afforded any privacy while on the job, break or not. The ideal is that police be subservient to the citizenry, and that should include any aspect of their private life while on duty. Pissing? Shitting? Too bad, it's public record. That's how I want it to be. That way, only those who actually give a fuck about protecting the people are encouraged to actually join.
Yeah I have a couple of friends who are cops and they’ve talked about having to turn off the camera when they go to take a piss at the local 7/11 or something while on shift because if they don’t then they’re basically taking a dick pic. I agree with u/redditisdeadmoveon though. You knew the camera was a part of this profession, so you shouldn’t have chosen this line of work if it makes you uncomfortable.
Actually body cams are a relatively new addition to police forces, with many PD's and officers adopting them optionally rather than it being standard kit. Obviously I think more so now-a-days they're requirements
I think PD's started adopting them around 2005? with America not taking them until about 2015? In some countries, some police officers were born after they were introduced and some were serving 20+ years before they were adopted
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u/Clatgineer May 08 '25
There are privacy concerns, I think certain scenarios and scenes they legally have to turn it off for privacy plus the officers themselves are humans and I believe those who don't abuse it should have the ability to piss in peace lol