Vest cameras for police officers

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There's a petition up at Change.org for the "Mike Brown Law" asking the Obama administration to require all law enforcement to wear them: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/mike-brown-law-requires-all-state-county-and-local-police-wear-camera/8tlS5czf

According to an article from gizmodo, Ferguson MO is considering vest cameras for its officers in the future.
snip:
LAPD Sgt. Dan Gomez described a situation to the Daily News where just the act of seeing an officer wearing a camera seemed to immediately calm an antagonistic person. "All of a sudden, the whole thing started to de-escalate," he said. "They were able to deal with whatever the situation was, and no additional enforcement action was needed."

--more at link:
http://gizmodo.com/ferguson-police-will-finally-get-the-one-device-they-re-1623312960?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

[woo me with science]

1. Demilitarize the police departments.

Vest cameras are not enough. The departments must be demilitarized. There is no excuse for paramilitary forces in the streets of the United States of America.

Stopping police militarization: Once again, the solution requires confronting corporate politicians.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025416709

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2. Agree totally n/t

[SwankyXomb]

3. Vest cameras?

Ferguson hasn't bothered to install the dashboard cams they already have, saying it's too expensive

[tencats]

4. Petition calling for all police to wear cameras has now surpassed 136,400 signatures

A White House petition calling for all police to wear cameras created after the shooting death of Michael Brown has surpassed 100,000 signatures, the amount that requires a response from The White House.

Created on Aug. 13, the petition reached its goal in less than a week, first hitting the threshold Tuesday night.

The petition calls for a "Mike Brown Law," which would rein in police misconduct by adding cameras to police uniforms. The tactic would, according to the petition, "not only detour police misconduct (i.e. brutality, profiling, abuse of power), but to ensure that all police are following procedure."

http://www.thewire.com/national/2014/08/120000-people-want-the-white-house-to-pass-mike-browns-law/378856/

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5. This would make a good OP

with the addition of the petition link