It was hoped video would increase transparency in policing, but BBC has uncovered 150 reports of failings.

It was hoped video would increase transparency in policing, but BBC has uncovered 150 reports of failings.

"The most serious allegations include:

*Cases in seven forces where officers shared camera footage with colleagues or friends - either in person, via WhatsApp or on social media

*Images of a naked person being shared between officers on email and cameras used to covertly record conversations

*Footage being lost, deleted or not marked as evidence, including video, filmed by Bedfordshire Police, of a vulnerable woman alleging she had been raped by an inspector - the force later blamed an “administrative error”

*Switching off cameras during incidents, for which some officers faced no sanctions - one force said an officer may have been “confused”

    • HipPriest@kbin.socialOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      Negligence in poor communities (basically ‘let the gangs sort themselves out’) was a major issue in the area where my mum worked growing up. She worked with kids with learning difficulties.

      That’s still the way the British police like it (and in the US as well I know) - the arrogant ‘well our hands are clean’ attitude. Same when knife crime became an epidemic with innercity youths there was massive inaction before doing anything about it, I suspect largely because on the whole it wasn’t white kids