Friday, July 17, 2015

More Cameras

  • As an increasing number of police officers nationwide now wear body cameras while on duty, public school principals in Iowa are also adopting usage of the small clip-on devices:

    Burlington Community School District in southeastern Iowa is taking the unusual step of recording parent and student interactions with administrators — a move district officials say will protect both sides.

    “It’s personal accountability,” Superintendent Pat Coen told The Des Moines Register. “Did we treat this person with dignity, honor and respect? And if we didn’t, why didn’t we?”

    [...]
    However, some disagree with the adoption of the cameras and see it as going a step too far:

    Ken Trump of the National School Safety and Security Services called it a “substantial overreach” by school leaders, one he wouldn’t want to see replicated in other districts. “They’re not in the dark alleys of local streets on the midnight shift,” said Trump, president of the Ohio-based consulting firm. “They’re in school with children.”

    He is also concerned about the legal question of private conversations being recorded.
So it's fine for the police to wear them but not school principals? Sorry, not buying that one. Plus, the Courts have sided with the schools time and again in minors having fewer Rights while on school property.

We can hardly wait until school cams come to Chicago - you thought dismissals were wild, wait until you see the classrooms.

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29 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good...
Here in Chicago we will get to see the "chirrens" in their
natural habitat doing what they do best.

7/17/2015 12:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Go in a medical facility - "local care satellite center" -- and see the tiny camera pointed at you from the back of the do-nothing receptionist's computer monitor.

Just in case you jump salty and (quietly) get verbal (just because the top of your head is coming off, little things) when they tell you f__k off, hit the street, go 90 blocks away instead.

Recommendation? Start filmin back. Everywhere, all the time, always.

Nation Of Cameras.

God, I do hate what life has become in this respect.

Sendin my drone over here later. ZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

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7/17/2015 12:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nope, sorry; don't want cameras in every aspect of my life. Just because you 'can', doesn't mean you 'should'. This is not the kind of world I want my kids to grow up in.

7/17/2015 12:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That is why I believe they should put cameras on politicians when they are negotiating contracts. They should put cameras on any person that has the authority to hire companies to do city work. The cameras should be in place so they do the right thing and not skim from the top. Its time that part of politics stops. We are the trouble we are today because of the crooked contracts and the skimming from the top politics.

7/17/2015 01:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Holy Shit,talk about a money making reality show!

7/17/2015 01:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Truth being said I would like the cameras. We are being recorded all the time, so why not have the cameras. At least then we know we are being recorded. We will be fair more vigilant should something erupt. I think the cameras could be our friend!

7/17/2015 01:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have said that there should be webcams in the schools. That way the parents and public could see how the little darlings are behaving. Maybe see why they are not learning.
See them yelling, screaming and acting like fools.

7/17/2015 01:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

All cops should wear body cameras. Police officers have the power to take someone's life. If a copper is involved in what he/she believes is a justifiable shooting, the camera could save a cops ass. For fucks sake, everybody on the damn street is filming, so why not have the officers recording too.

7/17/2015 02:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is something that the schools, over several generations, have brought upon themselves.

7/17/2015 02:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://youtu.be/TnaEaUKP5Ys

7/17/2015 03:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I believe Nelson Muntz said it best when he said...."Ha, haaaaaa!" (finger pointed).
Keep the cameras coming! I'd love camera footage of elected officials' "private meetings". Why should they have "private meetings" on our dime? If everything is above board they wouldn't mind having their meetings recorded.

7/17/2015 04:36:00 AM  
Blogger The Keesing Bandit said...

They won't do that here. My neighbors do not want to see how out of control the public school students are.

Now, kees me you fool!!!!

7/17/2015 06:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How about cameras for those street corner preachers, along with Father Faker??

7/17/2015 07:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Always Said to put cameras in school, my baby didn't do nuffin, lets go to the video tape.

7/17/2015 08:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There should be 2 school systems, 1 traditional and. 1 non traditional, the 1 should have teachers, counsellors, and so on, the 2nd should be a modern warehouse with auditoriums grades 1-8, all students who can't behave in class go to the auditorium school, and how would we know this, it would be on tape. If your kid is dumb as a box of rocks but is trying and not disruptive he can go to the traditional school. The few bad apples would stop ruining school for the ones who want to try. And maybe mama would take more of an interest.

7/17/2015 09:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There should be 2 school systems, 1 traditional and. 1 non traditional, the 1 should have teachers, counsellors, and so on, the 2nd should be a modern warehouse with auditoriums grades 1-8, all students who can't behave in class go to the auditorium school, and how would we know this, it would be on tape. If your kid is dumb as a box of rocks but is trying and not disruptive he can go to the traditional school. The few bad apples would stop ruining school for the ones who want to try. And maybe mama would take more of an interest.

7/17/2015 09:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A 4th grader stuck his foot out in the classroom aisle, tripped the tacher, and then claimed the teacher kicked him. I get the call, interview the teacher and child separately, and then give the mother the news that she's lucky the kid is not being expelled. I furthe explained that she needed to take a parenting course and take control of her kid and start siding with the educators who were actually trying to give little Willy an education and value system.

She turned blue, grabbed the kid by the arm, and left in a huff while dragging him like a rag doll.

The whole school office stood and gave me a rousing round of clapping and cheering and then I got a number of hugs.

Today, that mother would get a check from the city and the teacher would have a marred record.

I don't want to hear that it's a different world today;In the early 80's I should have done a report and let it go through the channels too. Then, the police took charge and made decisions and took action on their own. Damn the torpedos and full speed ahead!

7/17/2015 09:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Methinks we wouldn't have so many cameras if we didn't have so many people trying to get away with something. Sleaze-bag lawyers hope for a big payout and claim some kind of abuse just because they can and nobody can prove otherwise. Kids misbehave on school buses just because the driver can't drive and referee at the same time. Shoplifting. Running traffic lights. Pilfering. Maybe a more moral and polite society wouldn't need so many cameras to help insure good behavior.

7/17/2015 09:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am all for body cameras on Rahmulus, all mayors, aldercreatures, state reps and senators, members of congress, and senators. after all, like police officers, they are paid by tax payers.

7/17/2015 09:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We should have a camera in every classroom, every alderman's office, and the mayor should be wearing a personal body cam. Every citizen should be able to view these public officials every move at all times from their personal computers. Every public official should be held accountable by the citizens that pay their salaries.

7/17/2015 10:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cameras everywhere now! Gone are the days of getting away with running around naked!

7/17/2015 10:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm a CPS teacher. Wish a camera was on during our last parent conference day when a mom came in screaming at me, dropping f bombs left and right, because I was "failing her son." Her son who spends 90% of his class time trying to create disruptions and 100% of his computer time looking at basketball shoes. And who was finally suspended towards the end of the school year for fighting. With a baseball bat. But my principal wouldn't let him be arrested because, you know, that would mess up our data.

7/17/2015 11:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You point out that children have fewer rights in school- true but the issue here is not whether I as a teacher would film the classroom- that would be a waste of electrons.

What is far more important is to record the conversations and demeanor of the parents when they show up. They don't show for open house, reading night, outreach meetings, band, choir or plays, maybe to a game, but call out their child and you will see the hootin and hollerin start. Some of the nuggets dripping from their mouths are truly enlightening, and you end up feeling sorry for the kid when you see what they come from. We have and do throw parents out when they present a threat and can't keep it together, and have called DCFS when it was appropriate too.

7/17/2015 12:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Truth being said I would like the cameras. We are being recorded all the time, so why not have the cameras. At least then we know we are being recorded. We will be fair more vigilant should something erupt. I think the cameras could be our friend!
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Go back to Oz. I wear the camera and it is totally offensive. If you want to wear the camera ask to come to 014 3rd watch and take mine.

7/17/2015 01:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cameras in Chicago Public High Schools will last about 10 minutes before they are removed. CPS does not want everyone to know how their tax dollars are spent babysitting a bunch of wild animals. West Side High School = out of control. You have to see it to believe it.

7/17/2015 06:41:00 PM  
Blogger The Song Remains The Same said...

Anonymous said...
http://youtu.be/TnaEaUKP5Ys

7/17/2015 03:07:00 AM
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I love how they have a male white breaking into a car at 63rd & Loomis!!
That's more of a stretch than the high tech shit they have in the squad car!

7/17/2015 07:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The only ones who should have cameras are teachers and faculty. How often do we hear about a teacher getting caught w child porn or charged with criminal sexual assault? Too often. Media reports it barely.

7/17/2015 07:55:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
The only ones who should have cameras are teachers and faculty. How often do we hear about a teacher getting caught w child porn or charged with criminal sexual assault? Too often. Media reports it barely.

7/17/2015 07:55:00 PM

Not heard often enough to justify your opinion that you try to bolster with baseless media charges.

Your post qualifies you as a complete MORON. And, that is fact.

7/18/2015 10:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cameras everywhere now! Gone are the days of getting away with running around naked!

7/17/2015 10:15:00 AM


Not at all. It enhances the experience!

7/18/2015 10:33:00 AM  

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