Body Camera Quotes

“I'd never seen the footage on the news, and now in a way I'd never experience, seeing it on CNN somehow seemed to validate, at least in my mind, the significance of the event. On national television, in prime time. I broke down and sobbed, burying my head on the bar. At that moment, I cried harder and longer than I have in my entire life.”
― Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

“It is typical for corrupt police departments to give you the runaround regarding police body camera requests until you file a police complaint and then they usually comply.”
― Steven Magee

“As a police corruption researcher, I have had to file a police complaint numerous times to obtain police body camera recordings that I am in.”
― Steven Magee

“Police not supplying body camera video recordings? Time for a police complaint!”
― Steven Magee

“The police body camera system of public protection is heavily corrupted by the blue brotherhood.”
― Steven Magee

“The framing of the police body camera as a means of "reform" is one of the most significant achievements of copaganda in contemporary history.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“One of the things I really like about coming into contact with police officers is I can request their body camera recordings afterwards!”
― Steven Magee

“I was under so much stress during a police harassment incident that I could not remember being grabbed by the harassing police officer. It was only when I reviewed the police body cameras that I noticed it! The police withheld the body camera that showed it and I had to take steps to obtain it.”
― Steven Magee

“When a police officer harasses me, I am thinking to myself “I am really looking forward to obtaining the police body camera footage!”.”
― Steven Magee

“While the police officer you are interacting with may be wearing a body camera, there is no guarantee it is switched on and recording audio and video.”
― Steven Magee