<story><title>Lax oversight allows Chicago police to avoid turning on their body cams</title><url>https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3603ef8cc492488c847cffbe03ad0f1d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wombatpm</author><text>If we really want body cameras to work, there needs to be penalties for nonuse.  For example lack of body camera removes qualified immunity protections for the officer(s) in question.&lt;p&gt;My personal philosophy is that if called to be on a criminal jury, if the case relies on the officer&amp;#x27;s testimony and there is no camera, I will return a verdict of not guilty under the justification that the state has failed to prove its case.&lt;p&gt;A couple of hung juries and the powers that be may get the message</text></comment>
<story><title>Lax oversight allows Chicago police to avoid turning on their body cams</title><url>https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3603ef8cc492488c847cffbe03ad0f1d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wombatmobile</author><text>&amp;gt; The cameras are relatively simple to operate. They constantly record everything in front of them, but only save 30 seconds of video at a time. To record an entire incident, the officer must double press the “event” button in the center of the camera.&lt;p&gt;So non-compliance is the default.&lt;p&gt;And compliance failure is as easy as an incorrect double-press that fails to start recording.  Is there even any feedback that the double-press has registered?&lt;p&gt;Why not buffer 5 hours by default?</text></comment>