Every Homeland Security officer on the ground in Minneapolis, including those from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will be immediately issued body-worn cameras, Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday, in the latest fallout after the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens at the hands of federal agents.
The news of the body cameras comes as Minneapolis has been the site of intense scrutiny over the conduct of federal officers after two U.S. citizens protesting immigration enforcement activities in the city were shot and killed.
It is the latest effort by the Trump administration to alleviate tensions after the shootings and show it is responding to calls for accountability.
The problem is that even confirmed abuse does not get prosecuted. Adding more evidence won’t help.
Will they be held responsible if they “forgot to switched it on” or “left it in the office” or “accidentally deleted that file”?
Oh good this will be much better now that these crimes will be heavily recorded. The problem before is we didn’t have multiple angles of the crime recorded or something like a cell phone recording by the ICE agent.
Haha, will they be turned on? That’s a rhetorical question, don’t answer.
If it supports their side of the story it will be
Yes.
Are they going to turn the cameras on?
or the video footage not being withheld from the public?
You already know they won’t, and even if they do, a malfunction will always be the reason the footage was lost, unless it helps them track and arrest protestors.
Depends on whose agenda it helps.
I doubt they will even wear them
The problem isn’t lack of evidence, it’s lack of accountability and consequences. Adding another camera on the scene doesn’t fix the issue.
This assholes won’t actually use them correctly and conveniently “lose” the footage when needed, but generally having more cameras does actually help.
Yes the hard part of accountability is the elephant in the room, but I’m just saying, more cameras is always better than less.
We agree, I’m not against more cameras. I just don’t see it changing anything when they’d already voluntarily pull out their personal device to record themselves killing someone.
Comprehensive reviews of body cam usage already put into question the overall efficacy of body cameras (https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9133.12412 is the one I see cited most often, not sure if there are newer systematic reviews).
And that one also comes to the conclusion, especially regarding effects on use-of-force:
Ariel et al. (2016a) recently provided one nuanced explanation to these mixed findings. They discovered that when officers have more discretion in turning on their cameras, they tend to exhibit greater uses of force than officers who have less discretion regarding their BWCs [Body-worn Cameras]. In most of the use-of-force studies reviewed earlier, researchers did not track activation and therefore it was not clear to what extent Ariel et al.’s nuance is salient. If activation is related to use of force in these ways, however, consistently training, reinforcing, and supervising the implementation of mandatory policies may be needed to secure a positive effect of BWCs on reported uses of force
That, combined with the seemingly more gung-ho internal processes in DHS/ICE, also leads me to believe in few positive outcomes here – especially with the ‘editorial monopoly’ in institutional hands.
With an off switch, no doubt.
Who cares, we’ve already seen video of them shooting people for less than good reason and not a fucking thing happened
That’s great! They’d never murder someone on camera!
“Does this AR-15 make my ass look fat?”
-Dons tinfoil hat-
What if this policy is used to gather visual data to train an AI model to generate false attacks on ICE in one calm area to justify escalation in another hot area?
This would give them free rein to attack a peaceful neighbourhood based on the AI false flag attack and to escalate tensions between peaceful protestors in another part of the city / country.
Really leaning into their snuff films now instead of looking for public views.
Don’t care. Fuck you. Go to prison.
Narrator “they turned the cameras off”
Because, you know, we don’t want the cameras to always be on. What if something happened and they need to shoot a sassy mom in the face for driving at less than 5 mile per hour?
Happens every day, that is why our agents fear for their lives. Have YOU ever seen a car going 5 miles an hour? I doubt it, hippy
…and other stupid lies only brain dead bootlickers belive.
Now they got two hands for killing us. Hands free mode.
