We had a White Guy shot and killed last night here by 2 policemen. No protests, no rioting, but when the cop says drop Your weapon, You drop the weapon. End of argument.

(04-09-2015 07:05 PM)CardFan1 Wrote:  We had a White Guy shot and killed last night here by 2 policemen. No protests, no rioting, but when the cop says drop Your weapon, You drop the weapon. End of argument.

Should be, but don't bet on it around here...

(04-09-2015 07:11 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(04-09-2015 07:05 PM)CardFan1 Wrote:  We had a White Guy shot and killed last night here by 2 policemen. No protests, no rioting, but when the cop says drop Your weapon, You drop the weapon. End of argument.

Should be, but don't bet on it around here...

What weapon was this man carrying?

(04-09-2015 06:47 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(04-09-2015 06:32 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  http://news.yahoo.com/police-body-camera...07101.html

Quote:The rush to outfit police officers with body cameras after last summer's unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, threatens to saddle local governments with steep costs for managing the volumes of footage they must keep for months or even years, according to contracts, invoices and company data reviewed by The Associated Press.

The storage expenses — running into the millions of dollars in some cities — often go overlooked in the debates over using cameras as a way to hold officers accountable and to improve community relations.

Yet those costs can have a significant effect on city and county budgets, and in some cases may force police chiefs to choose between paying officers on the street or paying yearly video storage fees.

Quote:Demand for the devices is booming after the controversy in Ferguson and would accelerate further if Congress adopts President Barack Obama's request for $75 million to help communities buy 50,000 more body cameras.

Already, cities are wrestling with whether they can afford to equip all their officers and how often the cameras should be turned off to reduce the video recorded.

With an average officer uploading several videos per shift, it doesn't take long for data — and the associated expense_to add up.

"It's enormous," said Police Chief Gordon Ramsay of Duluth, Minnesota, where the city's 110 officer-worn cameras are generating 8,000 to 10,000 videos per month that are kept for at least 30 days and in many cases longer. "The more you capture, the more you have to store, which means higher costs."

Quote:Other cities are just beginning to struggle with how to pay for body cameras:

— In Wichita, Kansas, the police department has proposed selling a helicopter used to search for suspects in order to fund its body-camera program for hundreds of officers. The cost is estimated at $6.4 million over a decade and includes two employees to manage the program.

— In Berkeley, California, the city manager warned in a memo in January of likely costs of at least $45,000 a year for storing data from 150 cameras and assigning one or two employees. In addition, officers might spend 30 minutes per shift handling the video — the equivalent annual time of five full-time officers, the memo said. The City Council is scheduled to debate the issue next week.

"In our community, that alone would be about $1 million," City Council member Laurie Capitelli told AP, referring to the officers' time. "I want to look at the costs and consider the trade-offs."

— San Diego's five-year contract with Taser for 1,000 cameras would cost $267,000 for the devices — but another $3.6 million for storage contracts, software licenses, maintenance, warranties and related equipment. City officials can scale back the deal if funding dries up.

Quote:"Everybody is screaming, 'We need body cameras.' But nobody is saying, where is the money coming from? What are you going to do with all the data? Who is going to manage it?" said Sgt. Jason Halifax of the Des Moines Police Department, which is struggling to identify a funding source for $300,000 to start a program. "Are we going to cut personnel? Are we going to increase taxes?"

Yet another burdensome top down centralized government "solution" that is an unfunded mandate on small localities. The move is on for a "National Police Force" and we'll be told we're living freer in our police state. Great. Just great.

This is your takeaway from all of this? It's like you have a tumor or something.

He had a gun and had previously fired it thus reason for call. However I just got an alert from WDRB News that the Jefferson county corner has determined it was Self inflected during the exchange of Gunfire. Suicide is also a national problem not getting talked about in many of these cases. Sad fact of life.