… and for his targeted attack on an older teen — not the doorkicking perp.
No charges, apparently, for rounding up a posse of other cops from other jurisdictions to instigate a manhunt for Delaware’s Most Wanted doorkicker:
Walters’ girlfriend called him and gave him a description of the boy, police said. Walters, who was on duty, drove to his neighborhood and called other troopers and police departments for help.
I’d like to know more about these other cops, who abandoned their duties to help Walters in his crimes.
Turning off a body cam should be (at the very least) a citation offence against the officer.
If it comes to light that they were covering up something illegal or unethical (which is the entire point of shutting it off), then it should automatically escalate the response to the next level.
If we lived in a sane society it should be cause for immediate termination and black mark on being hired anywhere else. But we don’t live in such a society
The devices shouldn’t even have an ‘off’ switch — eight hours of video for every eight-hour shift.
Until that happens, a bodycam that was ‘on’ but then switched ‘off’ should amount to a confession of whatever misconduct is alleged.
It needs to be a fireable offense with criminal charges.