Dash cams, body cams and unintended consequences
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The federal government is subsidizing dash-cams and body-cams for local police in response to high-publicized incidents of police misconduct. On this special rebroadcast of To the Point, what does the footage really show? Should the public be able to see it all? We hear about the need for balance between privacy and so-called "transparency."
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| 0:00.0 | A jail stint can really disrupt someone's life. |
| 0:03.0 | You can lose a job, a relationship, or thousands of dollars on fees, fines and bail. |
| 0:08.0 | Have I ever gone to jail? |
| 0:09.0 | Yeah, I just got out, actually. |
| 0:10.0 | If he doesn't show up the court, you've got to pay the $50,000. |
| 0:13.0 | No degree and exchange, no kiss the bride. |
| 0:16.0 | There's no glamour in a jailhouse wedding. |
| 0:19.0 | Off the block, all six episodes tracing the path from city block to jail block and back |
| 0:24.1 | are now available on KCRW's iTunes page. |
| 0:30.5 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, |
| 0:36.2 | this is To the Point. |
| 0:39.3 | Dash cams, body cams, and unintended consequences. |
| 0:46.3 | Hello again, I'm Arminolny, and this is a special pre-broadcast of To the Point. |
| 0:50.5 | High-profile cases of questionable killings and other alleged misbehavior have police departments mounting cameras on patrol cars and on cops themselves. |
| 1:00.0 | The idea is public transparency. |
| 1:02.7 | But Seattle had 300,000 hours of dash cam footage, enough to keep 170 people busy for a year in response to a court order. |
| 1:12.1 | Body cams don't provide surveillance of the police. |
| 1:15.1 | It's mostly the innocent people they talk to. |
| 1:17.8 | Should those interviews become public? |
| 1:20.2 | Who should make the rules and implement the decisions day-to-day? |
| 1:24.2 | On our talking point later, shipwrecks deep in the Black Sea |
| 1:27.0 | cast new light on ancient |
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