You might be wondering why someone like myself, who is fairly anti-police is posting an article and video of a police officer doing something good and heroic. Well, here is why....
This video was provided by the El Segundo police department in California. It shows an officer rescuing a women from a burning car. The video was taken by the officers patrol car dashcam.
This department is currently being sued because in the last 2 years they have denied 36 out of 37 public records requests for copies of their patrol car dashcam video from various incidents. In addition to denying the videos, they also have an official agency policy to charge $155 per hour for their time to "compile records and make digitial copies" and that fee must be paid before the video is released. Almost every single police department charges a flat fee of $6 per CD of dashcam video.
Why do the police release videos showing positive actions by their officers and refuse public access to other videos ?
I have a feeling the judge in the current case is going to be asking that same question.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/general-...egundo-officer-pulling-woman-from-burning-car
This video was provided by the El Segundo police department in California. It shows an officer rescuing a women from a burning car. The video was taken by the officers patrol car dashcam.
This department is currently being sued because in the last 2 years they have denied 36 out of 37 public records requests for copies of their patrol car dashcam video from various incidents. In addition to denying the videos, they also have an official agency policy to charge $155 per hour for their time to "compile records and make digitial copies" and that fee must be paid before the video is released. Almost every single police department charges a flat fee of $6 per CD of dashcam video.
Why do the police release videos showing positive actions by their officers and refuse public access to other videos ?
I have a feeling the judge in the current case is going to be asking that same question.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/general-...egundo-officer-pulling-woman-from-burning-car