Body Cameras protect children, alleged criminals, those with mental health issues, the homeless, reputations, taxpayers and yes Eau Claire Law Enforcement.

 

(Risks & Rewards)

 

Human Element:

• Save's very valuable lives

• Least amount of trauma on children, victims, criminals, families and officers

• Preemptive visual measure to change the mindsets in an effort to deescalate situations

• Encouraging restraint through visual suggestion. (Were “all” being recorded) 

• Officers, families & alleged criminal can sleep easy knowing the body camera wont lie

• Establishing Civilian Complaint Review Boards 

• Reputations, integrity, morals and ethics are never compromised

 

Municipal Liability:

• Multi-million dollar civil rights lawsuits

• Claims of creative reporting and cover-ups

• Claims of excessive use of force

• Claims of police and Drug Task Force brutality

• Claims of human and civil rights abuses

• Claims of racism and discrimination

• Claims of inappropriate pat downs

• Claims of “Blue Code of Silence”

• Claims of cozy relationships between D.A offices and law enforcement.

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Mental Health:

• Communities backlash in excessive force of the mentally ill and or mentally handicapped

• Perceived lack of restraint, procedure, protocol, process and training.

• How to best approach and deescalate someone with a mental health issues.

• Provides mental health experts real-time situations that can better facilitate case studies

 

Prosecutorial:

• Perceived prosecutorial misconduct by the community and media

• Withholding evidence to insure outcome

• Witness tampering: on and off duty police intimidation of principal witnesses to a D.A. subpoena

•  HR and superior Intimidation of officers

• Cozy relationships between D.A’s and law enforcement

 

Private Contractor:

• Claims of targeting, tracking, following, intimidating and electronically water boarding communications of officers, witnesses, families and alleged criminals without oversight to insure a solid prosecutorial win

 

Media:

• Copying and pasting expedited police press releases without vetting the narrative(s).

• Bias reporting of demographics, groups, organization and businesses.

• Media keeping good rapport with law enforcement for the next big story even it requires compromising journalistic truth.

•  Sensationalizing a police press release without evidence base journalism for the sake of advertising revenue. 

 

Training:

• Provides valuable real-time training video footage for agencies and those in