Dash cams, body cams and unintended consequences
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 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. 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. |
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| 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 are now available on KCRW's iTunes page. |
| 0:30.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:38.4 | Dash cams, body cams, and unintended consequences. |
| 0:45.4 | Hello again, I'm Arminolni, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:48.4 | High-profile cases of questionable killings and other misbehavior |
| 0:51.7 | have police departments mounting cameras on patrol cars and on cops themselves. |
| 0:56.8 | The idea is public transparency, 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. |
| 1:07.6 | Body cams don't provide surveillance of the police. It's mostly innocent people they talk to. |
| 1:12.8 | Should those interviews become public? Who should make the rules and implement daily decisions? |
| 1:18.3 | On our talking point later, the career of Tom Hayden, radical leader of the 1960s, who died yesterday |
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