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Ronald shield is a man who got drugs planted on him by the police but the officers body cam captured it all a case is now open because of this. an officer inclines down and gets a little baggie loaded with white powder — which later tried positive for cocaine — that is on the ground. The officer who grabbed the baggie at that point movements to the second officer, focuses to Shield's wallet in his grasp and seems to put the baggie in the wallet.

The officer at that point turns on his body camera, yet the cameras naturally spare the past 30 seconds when they are exchanged on.

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Los Angeles police launched an internal investigation Friday after an attorney released body camera video that he says shows an officer planting cocaine in his client's wallet during an arrest.

The video was taken during an arrest in April when officers stopped Ronald Shields, 52, who they suspected had been involved in a hit-and-run crash.

It appears to show an officer standing beside Shields, who is in handcuffs, as another officer leans down and picks up a small baggie filled with white powder - which later tested positive for cocaine - that is on the ground. The officer who picked up the baggie then motions to the second officer, points to Shield's wallet in his hand and appears to place the baggie in the wallet.

The officer then turns on his body camera, but the cameras automatically save the previous 30 seconds when they are switched on.

"The drugs were certainly planted," Shields' attorney, Steve Levine, said. "If not for the body cam video, my client would be convicted of a crime he didn't commit."

Los Angeles police said they opened an investigation after the body camera video was aired by KCBS-TV on Thursday.

"The LAPD takes all allegations of misconduct seriously and, as in all cases, will conduct a thorough investigation to determine whether the alleged actions are supported by reliable evidence," police said in a statement.

Levine is asking a judge to suppress the evidence. The Los Angeles County district attorney's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Los Angeles police launched an internal investigation Friday after an attorney released body camera video that he says shows an officer planting cocaine in his client's wallet during an arrest. The video was taken during an arrest in April when officers stopped Ronald Shields, 52, who they suspected had been involved in a hit-and-run crash.

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This articles gives you a little trivia and background information about the cams and what it looks like through a cop point of view

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Now watch the same encounter filmed from the police car's dash camera.

That didn't add much clarity, did it?

Professor Stoughton said that after watching both videos, most people usually say: "It looked like he pushed the officer, or he fell because he was going to get hit by the door."

Why? Here's a hint: Of those who said they trusted the police at the beginning of this quiz, said the officer was knocked down by the driver or the door. Of those who said they tend to distrust or strongly distrust the police, said the officer was knocked down by either of those. (These results are updated every few minutes based on quiz responses.)

Now here is the same incident, from a bystander's smartphone. Watch and listen.

So here's what really happened: The man jumped out because he was trying to get away from a bee inside his car. All that flailing had nothing to do with the officer. It was all about the fear of getting stung.

The video also shows that the officer was not knocked down by the man in the car, or the door - he was too far away.

Why might some of us have missed these details?

Let's take a deeper look at the responses.

Readers who said at the start that they had a high level of trust in the police or tended to trust the police were more likely to believe that the officer faced a very threatening, or somewhat threatening, situation, according to our updated results. For those who said they distrusted the police, or tended to, the interaction looked less dangerous for the officer.

People who generally trust the police

Saw a serious threat

People who generally distrust the police

Saw a serious threat

This confirms what Professor Stoughton has found in his own presentations with judges, lawyers and students: What we see in police video footage tends to be shaped by what we already believe.

"Our interpretation of video is just as subject to cognitive biases as our interpretation of things we see live," Professor Stoughton said. "People disagree about policing and will continue to disagree about exactly what a video shows."

Race can also play a role. While Professor Stoughton's work did not seek to determine how the race of the driver affected viewers' conclusions, numerous studies have shown that some sort of conscious or unconscious bias is present in all of us, including law enforcement.

Body cameras can have a positive impact. In San Diego, complaints about officers fell 40.5 percent and use of "personal body" force by officers dropped by 46.5 percent after officers adopted body cameras, according to a 2015 report from the city's police department.

But Professor Stoughton said that as such videos become more commonly used in court to either bolster or dispute the accounts of police officers, people must be careful how they interpret the footage, keeping in mind the cameras' limits and viewers' biases.

"People are expecting more of body cameras than the technology will deliver," Professor Stoughton said. "They expect it to be a broad solution for the problem of police-community relations, when in fact it's just a tool, and like any tool, there's a limited value to what it can do."

Given that, and looking back at the videos and this experiment, has your view of policing and the role of video changed? Read responses from other quiz-takers then

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Now watch the same encounter filmed from the police car's dash camera. That didn't add much clarity, did it? Professor Stoughton said that after watching both videos, most people usually say: "It looked like he pushed the officer, or he fell because he was going to get hit by the door."

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A man was killed in chicago by police officers yes the man did engage in a chase but somehow his arrest didn't make it on footage and he was also came up dead since the officers cam magically cut off his case is still going to be reviewed since its strange the cam cut off

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The body camera worn by the Chicago police officer failed to record the shooting of Paul O'Neal. The 18-year-old was suspected of stealing a car that struck the officer's vehicle during the chase late last week, according to police.

Whether the crash affected the camera's ability to record is under investigation, police said. Investigators are also looking into whether the officer had turned it on. Three officers have been stripped of their police powers. The department's body-camera policy explicitly states what incidents must be filmed.

"Policies are only as good as the disciplinary procedures," said Harlan Yu, a principal at Upturn, which provides Internet expertise for policymakers on a range of social issues.

"Yes, Chicago has what appears to be a great policy that lists all the kinds of incidents that police officers need to have their camera on for. But in the shooting of Paul O'Neal it appears that this officer violated the policy. Now the question is what happens to this officer and what disciplinary procedures will there be so that officers will comply with policies in place."

The shooting is the latest to highlight concerns over the burgeoning use of body cameras as a way to increase transparency and accountability. Here's what you need to know:

How many police departments use body cams?

As of this month, 42 of 68 "major city" police departments in the United States have body-worn camera programs with policies in place, according to a "Policy Scorecard" released this week by the activist Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and Upturn.

Researchers looked at the 68 departments in the Major Cities Chiefs Police Association, which includes the country's 50 most populous cities.

In addition, three other departments -- Aurora, Detroit and Pittsburgh -- appear to have cameras on the ground but have not released body cam policies to the public, according to the scorecard.

The chorus for the use of body cameras gained strength nationally after the August 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Last year, President Barack Obama proposed $75 million for cameras, with the federal government matching up to 50% of what state and local agencies spend. The program was expected to pay for 50,000 body cameras over three years.

What can police body cameras achieve?

Calls for police body cameras have grown as a way to increase transparency and deal with police brutality. But the cameras are not a panacea, according to observers.

"There has been an assumption that with body cameras suddenly we have accountability," Yu said.

"But through experiences in Chicago, Baton Rouge and in Baltimore County, we're seeing a stark contrast between what people expect from cameras and what they can actually do."

In Louisiana, a black man named Alton Sterling was shot several times last month while being held on the ground by police outside a Baton Rouge convenience store. There was body footage of the shooting but the cameras were dislodged, police said.

"That footage may not be as good as we hoped for," Baton Rouge police Lt. Johnny Dunham said.

On Monday, in Baltimore County, Maryland, Korryn Shandawn Gaines, 23, was shot and killed after a seven-hour standoff with police. A 5-year-old boy next to her was wounded. Gaines was armed with a shotgun she pointed at police and attempted to livestream the incident.

The 1,900-officer department launched a $12.5 million body camera program last month to equip 1,435 cops with the devices over the next two years, said Elise Armacost, Baltimore County spokeswoman for police, fire and emergency management.

Ten officers a week are being trained on the 150 cameras in the first phase of the program, Armacost said.

None of the officers at Monday's shooting was wearing a camera, she said.

Obama last year cautioned against expecting easy answers to help ease tensions between communities and law enforcement. At the time, a national policing task force recommended, among other things, greater use of body cameras.

"There's been a lot of talk about body cameras as a silver bullet or a solution," Obama said.

"The task force concluded that there is a role for technology to play in building additional trust and accountability, but it's not a panacea. It has to be embedded in a broader change in culture and a legal framework that ensures that people's privacy is respected and that not only police officers but the community themselves feel comfortable with how technologies are being used."

Have body cameras captured alleged misconduct?

In January, the U.S. Justice Department announced the indictment of former Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer Richard Thomas Scavone on charges he violated the civil rights of a woman by using excessive force during an arrest a year earlier. He was also charged with obstructing justice for falsifying a report. He goes on trial October 25.

Scavone grabbed the unidentified woman around the neck with his hand and threw her to the ground, according to the indictment. The former officer then struck the woman in the forehead with an open palm and slammed her head onto the hood of his patrol car, officials said.

The eight-year police veteran was also charged with misdemeanor battery after the police department reviewed his body-camera video, which recorded the alleged assault, CNN affiliate KLAS-TV reported.

Last year, Albuquerque, New Mexico, police officers Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez were charged with first-degree murder in connection with the 2014 shooting of a homeless man.

James Boyd, 38, spent the night before his shooting in a shelter, but when the shelter closed for the winter, Boyd tried to camp in the hills above the city, officials said. Overnight camping there is illegal.

Helmet and body cameras worn by dozens of city police who converged on the campsite showed Boyd with two small knives in his hands. At one point, Boyd turned his back to the officers and they began firing.

Officers fired a shotgun and nonlethal beanbag pellets at Boyd, while others were caught on camera throwing flash-bang grenades. The video also showed one officer unleashing his German shepherd. Helmet cameras show Boyd wheezing for breath after the assault. He died later at a hospital.

The officers go on trial next month, according to CNN affiliate KOAT-TV.

A 2014 study conducted by the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology -- based on a 12-month trial in Rialto, California -- found that body-worn cameras reduced the use of force by 59% and complaints against officers by 87%.

"Body cameras may play a role in improving police officers' and citizens' behavior, but reforms to use-of-force policy and training need to be implemented in addition to body camera deployment if police conduct is to significantly change for the better," Matthew Feeney, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, wrote in a blog post for the Washington-based think tank.

In the O'Neal shooting in Chicago, the department is investigating why the body camera didn't record, according to department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.

The officer recently received the camera, Guglielmi said. Officers had received their body cams within the previous eight to 10 days, CNN affiliate WLS-TV in Chicago reported.

O'Neal's death comes two years after the city was rocked by the Laquan McDonald shooting, which left a Chicago officer facing a murder charge after more than a yearlong delay in releasing dashboard camera footage.

Are there positive trends in use of body cameras?

Yes. According to the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and Upturn report, some police departments have established procedures to allow people seeking to file a police misconduct complaint to view body cam footage.

Departments in Cincinnati, Chicago, Parker, Colorado and Washington have procedures that provide special access to people who are recorded during encounters with police, according to the report.

"Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia expressly allows a recorded individual to request to view footage," according to the report. "The policy also, commendably, clearly lays out the process of requesting to view relevant footage, and is one of the few policies we have seen that does so."

After civil rights groups voiced concerns about privacy and surveillance, some departments have begun to include limits on the use of biometric technologies like facial recognition. They include departments in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Boston, Cincinnati, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Parker, Colorado.

"Boston PD sharply limits the use of facial recognition technologies, going even further to mandate that cameras will not include any 'technological enhancements,'" according to the report. "This policy is unique among the major department policies we've reviewed."

What are the negative trends?

The report said none of the 68 departments it looked at fully met the criteria for the eight categories it used to evaluate body cam programs.

The eight categories: that the department makes its policy publicly and readily available, limits officer discretion on when to record, addresses personal privacy concerns, prohibits officer prereport viewing, limits retention of footage, protects footage against tampering and misuse, makes footage available to individuals filing complaints, and limits the use of biometric technologies.

The report said 13 departments were able to fulfill the criteria in more than two categories. Ferguson and Fresno, California, failed on every measure, according to the report.

The researchers said a "concerning nationwide trend" was the absence at every police department of a "blanket limitation on officer review of footage before filing an initial written incident report."

But six department policies have partial prohibitions in place for serious incidents such as officer-involved shootings.

"This is a major accountability problem with all body camera programs as it's vital to preserve the officer's recollection and the body camera footage as independent records," the report said.

"When officers view camera footage before filing their reports, there's a real danger of reports reflecting only what cameras happened to record, rather than what the officer actually experienced."

Three departments have not released their body camera policies to the public, researchers said.

"These police departments are enhancing surveillance of innocent people throughout their cities with no accountability for how the footage is used, when the cameras must be turned off or on, if they're videotaping victims during incredibly personal and sensitive moments, or what, if any, consequences there would be for officers using their cameras inappropriately," according to the report.

But the facts, along with the disparity in how each case is handled, do not provide a solid answer on whether body cameras are the answer to curbing excessive uses of force by police in America. In fact, they seem to demonstrate that these are complicated issues that won't likely be resolved by a simple camera on a cop's body.

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Police shootings highlight concerns about body cameras

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The body camera worn by the Chicago police officer failed to record the shooting of Paul O'Neal. The 18-year-old was suspected of stealing a car that struck the officer's vehicle during the chase late last week, according to police. Whether the crash affected the camera's ability to record is under investigation, police said.

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To make sure everyone who comes in contact with police is treated right and fair like how they are trained. In the past the police would get off easy just because they are a officer of the law but now the truth will always be available to those who demand justice. Vote yes for police cams for every officer and to keep them on the whole shift

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We can see true evidence when cops take violent action against normal citizens instead of just believing the police. This is a cold murder done by a officer but since there is a body cam a case can be made

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Police Body Cam Vid Shows 'Execution' of Daniel Shaver, Officer Found Not Guilty | TMZ

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FULL RAW VIDEO HERE: http://tmz.me/5phsc9b Police body cam footage shows the moment a Mesa, AZ police officer gunned down an unarmed man in a hotel hallway -- a shooting where the jury found the officer not guilty of 2nd degree murder.