Monday, September 26, 2016

Kobe Williams (1st Period) - No More Police Footage

Word has recently been going around saying that the footage of the North Carolina shooting might be the last time police footage will be released to the public. This is because of a new law that's goes into effect on October 1. This law was passed to block the public from be able to obtain footage from body cameras or dashboards, in order to balance "public trust" with the rights and safety of police officers.

Although I understand that certain videos of things that's happened most likely do not show both sides of the situation or the whole story, I still think it's best that people have some kind of explanation for significant events. Or else a new or wrong explanation could be made up and create a much worse effect. Though I'm still very curious as to the full reasoning and debates behind the creation of this new law.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/25/us/charlotte-police-video/index.html

10 comments:

  1. It's another way to slowly blind the mass public from the truth

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  2. It's incredibly immature and manipulative for them to do this.

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  3. Very true Kobe. I completely understand why they are passing this law, but there comes a time where the public deserves to know and see what happened, we can't always rely on them telling the whole truth.

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  4. I agree with you. The truth gets jumbled up whenever we don't have clear evidence of a crime. Although it may not show the whole story, how can we trust our news providers with such turn of events.
    -Anna Czyzewski

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  5. I understand the theory behind why this new law is being passed but sometimes it's good and necessary to know what happened through a video point of view. How will we know if what an authority or person did was intentional or not?

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  6. These laws makes no sense to me. If video footage is not being released it makes me even more scared for future police encounters because the public won't be able to go off of live facts from the videos and cases will soon be turned into he said she said type of cases.

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  8. Even though showing the video might only be showing some details and not telling the whole story, I think that the public should have some primary footage of what is happening in the police department. Not having this information could lead to citizens being ignorant of problems we have. If we stop getting these kinds of information, how will we know what is happening in our own country?
    -Mollie Hamman

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  9. I did the same article and I thought this was really interesting too. The videos seemed to be very unclear and did not help us understand the situation any more. The videos seemed pointless.

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  10. This is very interesting. I think the public has the right to know what's happening and this gives guilty people the chance to hide the truth

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