LAPD Officers Test On-Body Cameras - CBS Los Angeles

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Police officers assigned to foot patrols of downtown Los Angeles began wearing on-body cameras on Wednesday as the city evaluates different models to include in its policing.
Police Commission President Steve Soboroff said 30 officers have volunteered for 90-day trials of devices provided by Arizona-based Taser International Inc. and Coban Technologies Inc. of Houston
#the cyberpunk dystopia is nearly complete
We even have shitty 3D-printed guns.

Really? Did you ever learn about something like this in Rialto?

Maybe you didn’t get my flier to demand Border Patrol agents to do the same thing.

Sure, surveillance by law enforcement and governmental organizations is omnipresent. But let’s not fool ourselves that all applications of modern technology that we’d consider invasive is being implemented by law enforcement agencies alone: Consider what could be done when you walk in to a market or department store with your cellphone or when you carry around a security tag with an RFID chip in it; consider what tracking could be done by sundry agencies of law and commerce by looking at this post. Scrunitization of one’s use of technology without one’s consent is never ceases and is unavoidable — like it or not.

It might surprise you, but recording interactions with every contact a cop has might be a good thing that you’d want for cops to do to protect your rights.