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Post by redstone14 on May 20, 2015 1:32:22 GMT -5
Police union president: County has 'no plan' for cops' body camerasUpdated May 20, 2015 12:00 AM By NICOLE FULLER The Nassau County Police Department has "no plan" for implementing its body camera pilot program and the lack of preparation could leave officers inadequately trained and subject to unfair discipline, the president of the department's largest police union said Tuesday. Police Benevolent Association president James Carver, who said he plans to file an injunction with the Public Employment Relations Board to prevent the program from beginning Aug. 1, said he spoke once briefly with acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter about body cameras. Carver said Krumpter is required to negotiate with the union on the use of body cameras, an assertion department officials dispute. "Our concern as police officers is basically -- how will it be implemented?" Carver said. "As stated yesterday by the commissioner, there's not even a policy in place yet . . . They should be sitting down talking to us about this." Krumpter and County Executive Edward Mangano on Monday said the department would outfit 31 of its some 2,200 members with body cameras in a yearlong trial. Krumpter, who said officers would receive four hours of training, declined to specify the department's policy on the use of body cameras. In a written statement Tuesday, Krumpter said that "discussions, planning and training" for the program "will occur between now and August 1." Carver, who said the cameras could have a positive impact by "dramatically decreasing" false complaints made against officers, also lashed out at comments Krumpter made Monday, when he said the cameras would "ensure that officers are doing their job correctly and appropriately when interacting with the community." Carver called Krumpter's comments "very disturbing to my members." Carver said: "Let me be adamant about this, our police officers do the right thing each and every day, and they don't need a camera around their neck to have the public be assured that they're doing the right thing." In response, Krumpter said the department has "the finest officers in the nation and they have the full support of this office. This program is a pilot to test new technology that has proved beneficial to police officers and their agencies across the country and it in no way suggests any lack of confidence in the men and women of this department." www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/police-union-president-county-has-no-plan-for-cops-body-cameras-1.10452312
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Post by crates on May 20, 2015 9:55:09 GMT -5
Money for cameras but not longevity and tasers
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Post by pdcn63 on May 20, 2015 12:49:23 GMT -5
forget tasers, its just one more tool some savages family is going to say you should have used first
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Post by pdcn63 on May 20, 2015 12:52:49 GMT -5
Great Neck is a very odd place to have a couple of the officers have body cameras on.. as i went through the list it seemed they were putting them on cops in "high crimes areas".... it seems as though the bosses in charge wanted to make it look Non Bias.
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Post by crates on May 20, 2015 13:26:58 GMT -5
Great Neck is a very odd place to have a couple of the officers have body cameras on.. as i went through the list it seemed they were putting them on cops in "high crimes areas".... it seems as though the bosses in charge wanted to make it look Non Bias. Didn't know there were a list of places. |
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Post by luvinretrmnt on May 20, 2015 13:37:36 GMT -5
the only time carver opens his fat face other than stuffing peter lugars in it is to complain about the cameras on cops so the county wont have to spend the money on them..............
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Post by tywebb on May 21, 2015 11:31:55 GMT -5
I'm sure they will be properly maintained, serviced, and upgraded when needed, correct? Just like the cars, buildings, computers, cameras etc. we already have...
Great !!! I'm glad that's settled...
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Post by siggy on May 21, 2015 13:41:29 GMT -5
Can I refuse to wear one? I'm not sure if it's a horrible idea or just a not so great one.
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Post by kablaam on May 22, 2015 9:35:58 GMT -5
Can I refuse to wear one? I'm not sure if it's a horrible idea or just a not so great one. Do we have control over its recording status? If so, what if something crazy happens and i forget to turn it on? Wouldnt that look worse , like i am trying to hide something. If not, this thing is going to be recording me pissing and shvtting? Its kinda kinky but i rather it be on my terms not FOIL's. |
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Post by luvinretrmnt on May 22, 2015 10:53:20 GMT -5
Can I refuse to wear one? I'm not sure if it's a horrible idea or just a not so great one. Do we have control over its recording status? If so, what if something crazy happens and i forget to turn it on? Wouldnt that look worse , like i am trying to hide something. If not, this thing is going to be recording me pissing and shvtting? Its kinda kinky but i rather it be on my terms not FOIL's. Id be buying white castles every week and make sure that camera is recording the outcome both sound and sight..give em what they want..lmao......lets see how many people get jammed up getting a cup of coffee at DD.................. |
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Post by alpowell on May 22, 2015 15:46:31 GMT -5
Does anyone really think that this job will pay for the storage which is needed to run this program? It's very easy to purchase some cameras but it's another thing to purchase the large servers which are needed to sustain this program. Don't get worked up over this program. It has as much of a chance as succeeding as RMS does.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2015 21:33:11 GMT -5
Exactly, wait until the first whacko foil requests all the footage and they have to shell out millions to edit the faces, names and other personal information out of the videos. It's already happened in other jurisdictions. It will happen here.
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Post by redstone14 on May 23, 2015 1:02:12 GMT -5
It would be a lot less expensive to just equip the County Exec and the County Legislature with them. I know that they are all for open government.
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