Corrupt Tulsa Police officer

[MH2010]

I was told today that the dashcams did not make the budget for the next fiscal year. The mayor did not make them a priority. I guess we will do without of another year. Hopefully next year we can get the funding.

[TUalum0982]

quote:Originally posted by Wilbur

Don't know what to tell you about price.  You can quote all these prices from Best Buy and Circuit City all you want, won't change who bids on the specs once they are put out.  Needless to say, officers don't want pieces of crap where they will spend all day trying to get their systems to work because the department tried to buy some off the shelf, ordinary home camera system.  Just won't work.

And, sorry, air bags destroy a lot of things when they fire, not just their little holder.  That is why most windshields break when air bags deploy.  Anything sitting on a dashboard is going to go flying because the air bag deploys much larger then the hole it comes out of.

To spend $2.5M on a camera system because there is an vocal minority who refuse to believe one word any officer says or does is crazy.  That doesn't help any officer do there job better.  The amount of crime fighting that could be done with that amount of money is other areas would be a tremendous asset.  Do we realize who many new officers could be hired for that amount?

And how someone is supposed to do all this editing we are talking about from inside a car is beyond me.

It is not a dashcam per se.  It's not mounted on the dash.  Look at any OHP car, its mounted either right below the rearview mirror or on the right side of it.  Why doesn't the city of Tulsa talk to OHP about their systems and where they get theirs, their price, specs, etc.  I don't know how big their budget is, which I am sure is quite larger then Tulsa but they found a way to equip all their patrol cars.  

Also, I will disagree with your "most windshields break when the airbags deploy" statement.  That is just not true.  I will bring you over to our maintanence dept and show you car after car that has been wrecked with the airbags deployed and not a single windshield is broken.  The airbag deploys from the steering wheel, in no way shape or form should it ever come in contact with the windshield, atleast from my experience with them.

[Im calling you out]

Have you ever played bad cop?

[TeeDub]

It isn't that we don't trust the police, it is that we don't trust specific officers.  

I'll give you a "for instance."   I got pulled over one Saturday morning for speeding on 169.   I was in the middle lane, being overtaken on my left by a little rice burner car.   I was the one that got pulled over and a ticket issued, not the guy in the left lane.  After getting a ticket (later dismissed BTW) for 86 in a 65 and mandatory court, I asked to see the speed on the radar gun.

No.

Sorry, we don't have to show you that.

[Wilbur]

..... and do we realize how little crime happens at the front hood of a police car?  The vast majority of arrests and crimes happen away from police cars, which will result in absolutely nothing on camera.  Additionally, the camera is fixed forward, so even if something happens in proximity, not everything will be visible.

Look.... I'm not opposed to the cameras.  I just think police have more important things to spend all that money on.  I'd rather see things that help the police catch more bad guys!

[TeeDub]

Nevermind, not constructive in the least.

[EricP]

quote:Originally posted by TeeDub


I'd like to see police be worth what they get paid.

That'd be nice for a lot of people.. namely politicans and CEO's

[patric]

quote:Originally posted by MH2010

I was told today that the dashcams did not make the budget for the next fiscal year. The mayor did not make them a priority. I guess we will do without of another year. Hopefully next year we can get the funding.

Its a shame funding for equipment to improve the quality and integrity of law enforcement isnt one of our mayor's priorities.  Im sure the money will be spent instead on things more important, whatever that may be...

"They are already beams of light crisscrossing the Brady and Blue Dome Districts. Now the PAC is also a little brighter. Mayor Kathy Taylor is serious about spotlighting downtown Tulsa."

Oh, yeah, stuff like that.