Introduction: A large-scale search for three suspects in the fatal shooting of an Illinois police officer continued Tuesday into the night.
Officers in heavy gear, with K-9 partners and others on horseback, kept looking for the men police said shot Lt. Joe Gliniewicz earlier in the day.
The shooting happened about 10 minutes before 8 a.m., after Gliniewicz sent word over his radio that he was pursuing three suspects on foot, Lake County Sheriff's Sgt. Christopher Covelli said.
The hunt for the suspects -- described by Covelli as two white men and one black man -- put at least four schools on lockdown and left people barricaded in their homes.
If Lt. Gliniewicz had been wearing a body camera, they would have been able to find the people who had shot him. This is only one of many cases that police have been shot and the suspects have not been found. This leads to the question: Should policemen wear body cameras? …show more content…
Some officers also view the cameras as unwanted scrutiny and a sign that their supervisors don't trust them.The problem is that continuous recording raises many undesired privacy issues, for the public as well as for officers. For example, as the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) pointed out in their September 2014 report on body cameras, crime victims (especially victims of rape, abuse, and other sensitive crimes), as well as witnesses who are concerned about retaliation if seen cooperating with police, may have very good reasons for not wanting police to record their interactions. We agree, and support body camera policies designed to offer special privacy protections for these
Officers in heavy gear, with K-9 partners and others on horseback, kept looking for the men police said shot Lt. Joe Gliniewicz earlier in the day.
The shooting happened about 10 minutes before 8 a.m., after Gliniewicz sent word over his radio that he was pursuing three suspects on foot, Lake County Sheriff's Sgt. Christopher Covelli said.
The hunt for the suspects -- described by Covelli as two white men and one black man -- put at least four schools on lockdown and left people barricaded in their homes.
If Lt. Gliniewicz had been wearing a body camera, they would have been able to find the people who had shot him. This is only one of many cases that police have been shot and the suspects have not been found. This leads to the question: Should policemen wear body cameras? …show more content…
Some officers also view the cameras as unwanted scrutiny and a sign that their supervisors don't trust them.The problem is that continuous recording raises many undesired privacy issues, for the public as well as for officers. For example, as the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) pointed out in their September 2014 report on body cameras, crime victims (especially victims of rape, abuse, and other sensitive crimes), as well as witnesses who are concerned about retaliation if seen cooperating with police, may have very good reasons for not wanting police to record their interactions. We agree, and support body camera policies designed to offer special privacy protections for these