It was hoped video would increase transparency in policing, but BBC has uncovered 150 reports of failings.

It was hoped video would increase transparency in policing, but BBC has uncovered 150 reports of failings.

"The most serious allegations include:

*Cases in seven forces where officers shared camera footage with colleagues or friends - either in person, via WhatsApp or on social media

*Images of a naked person being shared between officers on email and cameras used to covertly record conversations

*Footage being lost, deleted or not marked as evidence, including video, filmed by Bedfordshire Police, of a vulnerable woman alleging she had been raped by an inspector - the force later blamed an “administrative error”

*Switching off cameras during incidents, for which some officers faced no sanctions - one force said an officer may have been “confused”

  • JudCrandall@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    but BBC has uncovered 150 reports of failings

    And the actual number of “failings” is going to be astronomically higher.

    • sadreality@kbin.social
      41·
      1 year ago

      At least UK police ain’t killing plebs…

      In US misuse would prolly be all murders… Cop “forgot” to turn it on! He was scared!

        • HipPriest@kbin.socialOP
          3·
          1 year ago

          Negligence in poor communities (basically ‘let the gangs sort themselves out’) was a major issue in the area where my mum worked growing up. She worked with kids with learning difficulties.

          That’s still the way the British police like it (and in the US as well I know) - the arrogant ‘well our hands are clean’ attitude. Same when knife crime became an epidemic with innercity youths there was massive inaction before doing anything about it, I suspect largely because on the whole it wasn’t white kids

      • HipPriest@kbin.socialOP
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, the force that claimed an officer “may have been confused” would have been better off not bothering with that excuse at all.

        • JudCrandall@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          Is it worse if an officer knowingly breaks the law, or if they’re so fucking stupid they can’t remember the law regarding something they MUST have just received recent training on?

          Trick question, they’re both the same, since the cops love telling people that ignorance of the law is no excuse.