Police went so far as to lie and say they heard and saw unarmed teenager Kendrec McDade shoot at them in Pasadena, California, and the officers still kept their jobs. Imagining danger is enough nowadays. Cameras could have shown us so much in this case.

Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, after chasing Mike Brown for over 150 feet and shooting him multiple times, claimed that Mike Brown then starting charging at him like a bull. Cameras could have shown us so much more in this case.

However, what we are seeing is a complete clusterfuck on the local policy level with all things related to police wearing cameras.

After assaulting Cortez Bufford, you can clearly hear St. Louis Police in this video saying they all need to turn off their body cameras to help themselves.

A Missouri lawmaker, in Senate Bill 331, is now proposing that all police-related videos be banned from public viewing. Here's the short bill proposed by Republican Senator Doug Libla:



590.810. 1. Any recording captured by a camera, which is capable of recording video or audio and is, during the course of a peace officer's official duties:

(1) Worn on the person of a peace officer;

(2) Attached to a peace officer's motor vehicle, watercraft, or aircraft; or

(3) Attached to any other device used by a peace officer,

shall not be a public record for purposes of the state's open records law under chapter 610 and shall not be disclosed by a law enforcement agency except upon order of a court in the course of a criminal investigation or prosecution or civil litigation.

2. No law enforcement agency shall be required by the state to provide cameras as described in subsection 1 of this section to officers employed by the agency, nor shall the state require any peace officer to wear such cameras.

Conservatives in Arizona have successfully advanced similar legislation that will prohibit the public from seeing footage from police cameras.

A recent study found that half of the LAPD squad cars that were under review had tampered with their recording equipment to avoid being monitored.

The officer who chased, shot, and killed Darrien Hunt in Utah was actually wearing a body camera, but claims it was turned off.

An officer wearing a body camera in Washington state shot and killed a man sitting in his car, but claims he failed to turn his camera on.

This New Orleans officer turned her body camera off just minutes before shooting a man in the head.

This Daytona Beach police officer just resigned after being caught turning his body camera off before an arrest.

An Albuquerque, New Mexico, officer literally turned his camera off right before shooting and killing a woman and turned it back on right after it was over. He was fired, but never charged with a crime.

These New Jersey officers were indicted after wrongfully arresting and assaulting a man and faking like he "went for their gun" for one of the police dash cams—only to be filmed acting it all out on another dash cam. The man almost received 30 years in prison.

This Syracuse, New York, officer turned his camera off before arresting a fellow officer.

This Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, officer turned his camera off before committing several violations that eventually led to his termination.

This Ohio officer was allowed back on the job after turning his camera off during a threat he was making to a couple.