Cops Quick To Release Videos To Shame DUI Suspects: Reluctant To Comply When They Are Under Scrutiny..

As a strong sup­port­er of the rule of law I feel com­pelled to be fair and just in the way I look at all issues involv­ing law enforce­ment whether they are palat­able or not.

Which leads me to won­der why is it so dif­fi­cult for police depart­ments to com­ply with requests to release dash cam and body cam­era record­ings in sit­u­a­tions where police offi­cers use force, to include dead­ly force?
If a police offi­cer is jus­ti­fied in the actions he takes in using dead­ly force, or even less lethal force, why the reluctance?

Departments have no plau­si­ble rea­sons for refus­ing legit­i­mate demands for the release of videos , unless there are exten­u­at­ing cir­cum­stances in which their release would ver­i­fi­ably jeop­ar­o­dize ongo­ing investigations.
Even so, that deci­sion should be the per­og­a­tive of District Attorney and not the police themselves.

In many cas­es in the United States despite the police being pub­lic ser­vants and employ­ees of the peo­ple , it requires court orders to get depart­ments to com­ply with requests for the release of Video record­ings of police use of force encounters .

The Police should nev­er be ham­strung in their abil­i­ty to do their jobs, but they should nev­er be allowed to be laws onto them­selves , account­able to no one.

CONVERSELY.…

On the oth­er hand it is remark­able how police depart­ments are quick to release dam­ag­ing infor­ma­tion on celebri­ties when­ev­er they are arrest­ed on sus­pi­cion of hav­ing bro­ken some minor traf­fic law.
I hold no brief for Tiger Woods , but it begs the ques­tion , what val­ue is added to the case against Tiger Woods or any celebri­ty when they are arrest­ed under sus­pi­cion of dri­ving under the influ­ence by releas­ing the video?

What is the dif­fer­ence between cit­i­zens demand for videos of police actions for account­abil­i­ty pur­pos­es and the response of depart­ments in try­ing to shame mem­bers of the pub­lic when they are accused of minor infractions?

We can only have a just soci­ety when the laws apply to each and every per­son just­ly and equitably.
No one is big­ger than the law, cer­tain­ly not those whose jobs it is to enforce them.