The SPD has seemingly used up all of the goodwill it banked up during the Monfort/Williams shooting a couple of years ago, and are sadly slipping downhill at an alarming pace. (If you read the comments from the Times story)

Three years ago, some guys were 'Urban Golfing' during a pub crawl, somehow the police become involved, and one dude gets arrested for not providing ID to the cop (Obstruction). Anyone see the problem yet?

It is not against the law for a person not to show ID or give an officer your name.

Why is this relevant now? Because the charges were (rightly) dropped, but the dashcam video was suppressed from the defendant, and told the video no longer existed.

Delve into the story a little deeper and you find that FOI requests for dashcam videos take three years to go through, the department also 'destroys' the video after three years.

The cams were put into the cars for the protection of citizens and the officers, but if the evidence is suppressed, how does the video help the citizen?

This guy sued, won $60,000 and has used the money to create a database for citizens to check whether or not the run-in they had with police was taped, and I think whether or not the video still exists. Because apparently this guys case was not an isolated incident.


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