Body-worn video: LE use in the USA?

[TheCurmudgeon]

Some years ago I was at an Officer Survival seminar and a defense Attorney was giving a lecture about courtroom testimony, evidence, etc. One of his points was that whenever possible he would use Visual evidence not Testimony or audio evidence. Visual is much more persuasive at least based upon his courtroom experience which was considerable.

I remember hearing a lecture on evidence as to which was more powerful, 100 nuns who say they watched the courtyard all night and never saw anyone cross it or the footprints in the snow across the courtyard demonstrating that someone had crossed it during the night.

That being said ...

As a society we are becoming a visual generation; no pictures, nothing there.

... I was actually just thinking the oposite, that today I cannot trust anything on video.


http://www.noupe.com/inspiration/50-...portraits.html

With the right technology I can prove that velociraptors shot Kennedy...