Hopeless
If the Miami Police Department is going to equip its officers with body cameras it’s going to have to go to war with the FOP first. Fraternal Order of Police President Sgt. Javier Ortiz wrote an open letter yesterday to Miami’s city manager. In it, he called the city’s pilot program to equip officers with cameras “reckless.”
“The poor excuse that this is a pilot program means there are no rules and it’s just a free for all,” Ortiz wrote. He added that if police brass is serious about transparency, COMPSTAT meetings, during which crime statistics are discussed, should be videotaped.