The Untouchables?

Carl Ballou

Recently (and in case you've been living in a cave), grand juries found that there was not enough evidence to indict the police officers who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner. "Everyone knows policing is violent, and [jurors] don't want to second guess those decisions," explains former police officer Philip Stinson, who is now a researcher at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. So just what does it take, and have officers ever been prosecuted and found guilty of manslaughter or murder while on duty? (story, video): http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30339943
   Data analysis by The Wall Street Journal has found that it's all but impossible to determine how many people are killed by the police every year (story, video): http://www.wsj.com/articles/hundreds-of-police-killings-are-uncounted-in-federal-statistics-1417577504?mod=e2fb
   There's a lot of talk about body cameras for police now, and there's little doubt that, soon, all officers will be wearing them. Whatever controversy there is about them echoes the concerns that swirled around the introduction of police car cams. Some predictions on the present and future of body cams, based on the history of car cams: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/12/seen-it-all-before-10-predictions-about-police-body-cameras/383456/