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Originally Posted by 68style
But the actions of this officer seem... out of line... you shouldn't have to drag someone to the lobby, just wait for someone else to come help you carry them or something. And the boot to the head/hair pulling at that point when someone is prone seems like she's just pissed at the chick for pulling a box cutter on her earlier. Need to let that shit go and act more professional.
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No doubt, the kicking of head to stay down.. i can understand it was poor judgment. Girl is mentally "unstable" hence the health check, bf called as he found pills + lying in bathroom.
How about a diff perspective: Cop comes, calls ambulance & cuffs her (which is legit and fair, in case she wakes from and becomes aggressive).
To save time, and for safety of the girl's health (could be OD, could be drunk), cop makes a "bad" judgment call and drags her downstairs lobby outside; instead of the ambulance having to gain access to apartment's front door by property manager and elevator without a key fob, cop DRAGS the girl down the front door so critical time can be saved for the girl's life.
So yes, cop could have easily walked away, do nothing and let the girl wait for an ambulance to comes 45 mins later and die. BF could have left the building after he says fuck off to a druggy gf...
Many sides of the story.
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Originally Posted by Traum
It boggles my mind to this day that body cameras are still not mandatory for on-duty police officers. A lot of the he-says-she-says bullshxt would easily get dispelled by the body camera + audio, although once it gets into a scuffle, the effectiveness of the video foot diminishes.
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As stated in other thread, the cost to maintain is huge. As of 2018, 5800 RCMP in BC. Maybe 1/5 are on the field? Each carries a camera? How do they charge batteries? Do they swap? How do they retain the footage, the the storage of 1,2,3,4 5+ yrs... the storage capacity is huge.
It all comes down to their budget so with infrastructure + encryption + cost.. I can't see this being a cheap program to maintain. We're talking about petabytes of data ...