[stephen @ Aug 3rd 2007 5:04PM]

The downfall to this is that, in some cases, the cops will be more worried about appearing correct on camera than actually being correct in whatever situation they may be in.

Another negative aspect, and somewhat of an extension of my first. Some cops will naturally do weird things because of the camera's.

I recently watched a video on break.com or youtube.com where the cop was trying to get a resident out of their house because he though it was on fire. In doing so he broke 8 windows....each of which was too small for him to get into the house in order to assist the resident.

I'm sure it'll give us lots to laugh at though. :D

[Lizardman @ Aug 3rd 2007 5:33PM]

That clip is a classic from cops and is rather old. The camera had nothing to do with the cops behavior though, he and the rest of the cops on scene (who were not shown in the edited online clip) were genuinely mistaken about which house(s) were on fire and in that high stress situation erred on the side of caution. As for smashing the windows he obviously couldn't get in through it was attention grabbing for the resident and most likely a stress reaction to the need to get her out quickly rather than a thought out plan. Afterwards (and I don't think they showed this in the youtube version either) a number of the officers rib him about busting the windows he couldn't get through. The windows were repaired at department expense.

Oversight of the police like this is sorely needed everywhere.

[stephen @ Aug 3rd 2007 7:48PM]

The online clip did show the ribbing afterward.

Having seen the full clip you are probably correct on the situation i pointed out.

That aside, people tend to behave differently (regardless of their line of work) when camera's are present.

You wouldn't happen to have a link to the full clip would you?