Body cameras failed to resolve disputes about police actions

NY Times:

Body Cameras Have No Effect on Police Actions, Study Says

The 18-month study of more than 2,000 officers in Washington found that officers with cameras used force and prompted civilian complaints at about the same rate as those who did not have them.

Police believe in the tactics they have been taught in dealing with citizens who they see as breaking the law.   I suspect that police who use the cameras see them as a device to prove their side of the story coming out of a confrontation.  They would tend to make it more difficult for suspects to allege abuse against the police.

In a recent incident in Dennison, Texas a Whataburger employee refused to serve cops claiming that cops had beat up her boyfriend.

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The employee alleged “cops beat up my boyfriend and are racists,” Burch said. He added that the woman told the supervisor her boyfriend was “beat up” when Denison officers arrested him a few weeks ago.

Burch said the supervisor went to the station and found the documentation of the arrest and then reviewed the video of the arrest from the arresting officer’s dash cam.

“It was a ‘routine’ arrest,” Burch said. “There was no physical altercation and no one injured. So the employee was simply lying about her boyfriend getting ‘beat up’ by police."
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Claiming racism when it does not exist is a problem in this country that appears to be more widespread than actual racism.  Just look at the absurd claims of Congresswoman Wilson who made the bizarre claim that being called an "empty barrel" was racist.  It is a term that is traced back to Plato to describe someone who makes a lot of noise without substance.  It has nothing whatsoever to do with race and was applied to other Greeks at the time he coined the phrase.