camera in this case, there s huge questions about whether the public or the family would be able to see it. and maybe they should be turned on automatically. they should be triggered by something automatically. david, what did you say? they have a policy in place and it suggests in an event which could become critical, you should use it. a traffic stop for example. so i would think if it s enough to suggest a body camera should be turned on, an event where you re showing up there s no reason not to have it on and at the very least they were fully trained. officer noris going to be looked at very closely and if he happens to be an officer who is not properly utilized his camera like he was supposed to because we now know how often officers are supposed to use their cameras, it s going to be questionable.
since 2014. but what we ve yet to see is a full set of best practices of when they should be used and beyond that, had there been a camera in this case, there s huge questions about whether the public or the family would be able to see it. and maybe they should be turned on automatically. they should be triggered by something automatically. david, what did you say? i m sorry, mark? they have a policy in place and the policy suggests in an event which could become critical that you should use it. a traffic stop for example. so i would think that if a traffic stop is enough that an event if you are showing up at night for a complaint of a potential event, at the very least they were poorly trained. officer noor is going to be looked at very closely and if he happens to be an officer that who has not properly utilized
his camera like he was supposed to because we know how often officers are supposed to use their cameras. this needs to be a learning point for officers when they have cameras they have to use them. david, what is your response to this? what do you think? real quickly. i basically agree with the notion that body cameras are a good thing. however, one of the key issues people don t seem to think about is the privacy rights of citizens. that is something that bothers me. perhaps, just perhaps, if you think about it if you are a police officer getting a call to a sexual assault and you see a female flagging you down, potentially, maybe this is my sexual assault victim. i don t want a body camera on. u i don t want to get information and someone has access to that. maybe that could be an explanation. the shooting is a whole other thing and i have problems with
it s a little bit of a red herring versus the core issue of deadly force. exactly. which is what i want to talk to wes about here. just real quickly david, this guy, the officer is accused of shooting across his partner sitting in the passenger seat. under any circumstances, and you train officers, you would not train officers to do that, would you? well, there would always be a very narrow window where one officer could shoot across the body of another. but once again, very narrow. but this doesn t seem in any way, shape, or form to fit that. and so it s one of those things i would never say never. as soon as i heard he shot across his partner, i m thinking this is just beyond bizarre. wes, the shooting is making the front page headlines and stirring outrage. australia and across the world. not surprising considering the circumstances. no, not at all. i mean, the reality is you ve got two to three fatal police shootings each day. this is the 547th of this year.
take control. ask your doctor about nonprescription ibgard. we re back with my panel. david clinger was making a point about the body cameras. mark, you disagree with him about that? about privacy or a rape victim or assault victim. there are a couple of logistic problems with the cameras. one is storage. it s enormous data and redaction because some criminal defense attorney like me is going to make a request to get it and the police have to go through the process of redaction. i understand the logistical concerns. i disagree with david if he s saying an officer can somehow make this determination i may be coming upon a sex is event and may not want to turn my camera on. those cameras are now the standard for retention of evidence. it should be on at any time