34 Criminal Cases Tossed after Body Cam Footage Shows Cop Planting Drugs

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Did you know that police body cameras begin recording half a minute in advance? One Baltimore officer definitely did not, as he unknowingly taped himself planting a bag of pills in an alley for an easy drug bust. The cases he was involved in have now been dismissed, and 123 other cases are under review.

It shows the officer placing a soup can, which holds a plastic bag, into a trash-strewn lot. That portion of the footage was recorded automatically, before the officer activated the camera. After placing the can, the officer walks to the street, and flips his camera on. “I’m gonna go check here,” the officer says. He returns to the lot and picks up the soup can, removing the plastic bag, which is filled with white capsules. Police cameras have a feature that saves the 30 seconds of video before activation, but without audio. When the officer is first in the alley, there is no audio for the first 30 seconds.
 
Hope this guy gets fired. That's ridiculous & I'm sure it happens all the time. Way to go, make it bad for the honest cops.
 
Reality: Cops found drugs, but not with cameras on. Because baltimore city is a complete shit-hole with lenient judges that have such a huge backlog of criminals to process, they don't bother charging unless rock solid evidence. Police re-plant drugs so that they can find it "on camera" and make it admissible evidence, but end up screwing themselves in the process.

Or maybe i'm wrong and there isn't a single piece of shit in this wonderful city that I live in and that's why people are totally not leaving in droves every year, myself included.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/ma...ore-population-loss-jumps-20170322-story.html

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/md/baltimore/crime

http://chamspage.blogspot.com/2017/01/2017-baltimore-city-homicides-list-and.html

That said, the cops here can be trash too. But you would too if you constantly saw the same people you absolutely knew were criminals getting away with everything they do, year after year. Not to mention the people that actually want to be City cops aren't exactly the best/brightest, they all move to county as soon as they do their 1-4 years.
 
It is an unfortunate situation. I have the greatest respect for what law enforcement has to do but the accountability system is beyond fucked.
 
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Due to the current trends I want the following
new changes to the cameras location based activation if they are more than 5ft from patrol car the cameras activate. There is no longer a way for the officer to activate or deactivate the camera at will footage is uploaded to car system and then server upon coming within set range of base station... Further all officers while on duty or in uniform will be equipped with cameras. I kinda want to say as long as a officer is armed they should have the cameras...

What if the officers sidearm was equipped with a underbarrel camera.
 
Krenum said:
Hope this guy gets fired. That's ridiculous & I'm sure it happens all the time. Way to go, make it bad for the honest cops.
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Fired? He should do time. And like it was his first time, please, first time caught. I'm sure there are a small minority of good cops, but the majority of "protect and serve" mentality has been lost. I have no faith in our police, criminal justice system or courts. It is turning into a profit driven business in most areas.
 
I think they should make it so the cameras start recording from the moment they go on duty till they come off duty and only be able to pause for about 10 mins for bathroom breaks and such. This would eliminate all such moves such as planting evidence I would think. Although this might be stressful to the officers it would also be to their benefit. There would be a few to almost zero questions on how things went.
 
lilbabycat said:
Reality: Cops found drugs, but not with cameras on. Because baltimore city is a complete shit-hole with lenient judges that have such a huge backlog of criminals to process, they don't bother charging unless rock solid evidence. Police re-plant drugs so that they can find it "on camera" and make it admissible evidence, but end up screwing themselves in the process.
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Because that is so much easier than activating the camera when you find the drugs, before you pick them up.
 
I am glad he got busted. That is some gay ass shit right there! It's horrible that he affected so many that may actually be innocent of his evil crusade to make himself look good.
 
If found guilty of planting evidence and testifying under oath about the same, he should serve 1 year + time equal to the sum of all the time spent in jail by all of the folks falsely imprisoned by his actions. Plus he should be fined an amount equal to all the money spent defending the folks falsely imprisoned.
 
ob1 said:
Fired? He should do time. And like it was his first time, please, first time caught. I'm sure there are a small minority of good cops, but the majority of "protect and serve" mentality has been lost. I have no faith in our police, criminal justice system or courts. It is turning into a profit driven business in most areas.
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I'm sure there are a small minority of shit cops (and even racist ones too - most police forces are made up of humans), but the majority do "protect and serve". I do wish there were a way for all the BLM tards to "opt out" and place themselves on a do not respond list, that way when they wreck their car / get assaulted / are robbed they aren't tempted to risk becoming another victim of the police, criminal justice system, or the courts they so despise.

Nallexi said:
How much more expensive could it really be to just have video and audio recording constantly?
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Unless they're recording in 4k uncompressed I'd say not much more.
 
Detroit hit rock bottom first, and is now well into recovery. A lot of the other big American cities that look down on Detroit have some tough times ahead. Brace yourselves.
 
wizzi01 said:
This is why some officers are against cameras. The cameras will show more criminal activity by bad officers than the criminals they bust. Stuff like this makes it hard for the good officers.
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but without the cameras bad officers will continue to get away with shit. this very thing is what gets rapists and murders out of jail free...
 
w4ffles said:
Give me a good reason why police body cameras shouldn't be running during their entire shift.
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Also give him a good reason the officer wearing it has the option to turn it off.

Though I suppose if they want to do something illegal they could just do it at a angle that is not on camera. Like if this guy was planting evidence out the pocket then walk away never facing it to what the cop is doing...

Another thing they could remove it...
 
How about not rating their performance on number of busts?
Maybe making a work environment where it is not in his interest to plant evidence is better, than doing a cat and mouse game of who planted what. As long as it helps their career to plant evidence some will always find a way to do it.

In the end the real problem are the courts that started throwing out cases because they didn't think there was enough evidence to connect the drugs to the suspect. So Police started planting evidence so they can get convictions instead of thrown out cases.
 
For all those asking why the body cams can't record for the entire shift, it's due to storage, or lack of. The body cams record onto themselves, and then when they get back to the station and dock the cam, it uploads to the server. No way (at the present time) you're going to be able to get a 10-12hr shift recorded u less it's at 480p.

Also, the cams activate by pressing the record or when the blue lights in the car is activated.

I deal with one brand at the PD I work at. And if it's recording 10hrs, you'll need 100s of terabytes. We're now at 30tb and that's just 3 years worth of videos from the dash cams. The body cams we got this year added almost 1tb so far.
 
Why fire him? He only did it because known criminals are let go. Again, and again, and again. Do the same for him. Hell, as long as politicians set the bar with breaking laws and not getting prosecuted, why should anyone be prosecuted?

Yes, this is all linked. No, I do not condone planting evidence. But, there is a bigger problem. This is just a symptom.
 
Nallexi said:
How much more expensive could it really be to just have video and audio recording constantly?
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w4ffles said:
Give me a good reason why police body cameras shouldn't be running during their entire shift.
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Multiple violations of personal privacy every time they enter someone's home that hasn't yet been charged with anything. Recording in showers, bathrooms, etc where innocent bystanders may be nude. Minors/Children that may be nude during arrests, completely opening up an avenue for unintended child pornography. Reluctance of witnesses to talk during investigations due to fear of being recorded (and then killed), this is especially true in Baltimore where "Snitches get Stitches" was coined. (Also part of the problem, pieces of trash in the inner city can't bother to save themselves, would rather gangbangers walk) You did think of that, right?

https://www.brennancenter.org/analy...icies-privacy-and-first-amendment-protections
 
lilbabycat said:
Multiple violations of personal privacy every time they enter someone's home that hasn't yet been charged with anything. Recording in showers, bathrooms, etc where innocent bystanders may be nude. Minors/Children that may be nude during arrests, completely opening up an avenue for unintended child pornography. You did think of that, right?

https://www.brennancenter.org/analy...icies-privacy-and-first-amendment-protections
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And the best part is, many states are changing the laws to allow this recording due to the public "demand" for body cameras.
 
lilbabycat said:
Multiple violations of personal privacy every time they enter someone's home that hasn't yet been charged with anything. Recording in showers, bathrooms, etc where innocent bystanders may be nude. Minors/Children that may be nude during arrests, completely opening up an avenue for unintended child pornography. Reluctance of witnesses to talk during investigations due to fear of being recorded (and then killed), this is especially true in Baltimore where "Snitches get Stitches" was coined. (Also part of the problem, pieces of trash in the inner city can't bother to save themselves, would rather gangbangers walk) You did think of that, right?

https://www.brennancenter.org/analy...icies-privacy-and-first-amendment-protections
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and having a 30 second buffer doesn't violate those rights?
 
lilbabycat said:
Multiple violations of personal privacy every time they enter someone's home that hasn't yet been charged with anything. Recording in showers, bathrooms, etc where innocent bystanders may be nude. Minors/Children that may be nude during arrests, completely opening up an avenue for unintended child pornography. Reluctance of witnesses to talk during investigations due to fear of being recorded (and then killed), this is especially true in Baltimore where "Snitches get Stitches" was coined. (Also part of the problem, pieces of trash in the inner city can't bother to save themselves, would rather gangbangers walk) You did think of that, right?

https://www.brennancenter.org/analy...icies-privacy-and-first-amendment-protections
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Not really good reasons not to be recording 100% during duty.
 
the-one1 said:
For all those asking why the body cams can't record for the entire shift, it's due to storage, or lack of. The body cams record onto themselves, and then when they get back to the station and dock the cam, it uploads to the server. No way (at the present time) you're going to be able to get a 10-12hr shift recorded u less it's at 480p.

Also, the cams activate by pressing the record or when the blue lights in the car is activated.

I deal with one brand at the PD I work at. And if it's recording 10hrs, you'll need 100s of terabytes. We're now at 30tb and that's just 3 years worth of videos from the dash cams. The body cams we got this year added almost 1tb so far.
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Absolutely full of shit:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...gg1MAI&usg=AFQjCNGZQQh7siaYExFjSi0QM6-Poxrd6Q
 
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