Ron Bailey Says: Watched Cops Are Polite Cops
Requiring law enforcement to wear video cameras will protect your constitutional rights and improve policing.
This summer, after a civil suit challenged the New York City Police Department's notorious program of patting down "suspicious" residents, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the Federal District Court in Manhattan imposed an experiment in which cops in precincts with the highest reported rates of stop-and-frisk activity would be required to wear video cameras for a year. Ron Bailey asserts that requiring law enforcement to wear video cameras will protect your constitutional rights and improve policing.