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This reminds me of being taught to claw and touch EVERYTHING if you're abducted, pull hair out, try to make yourself bleed, ANYTHING to leave as much evidence as possible
@@ambrosiiasthe fingerprints and dna would be all over, i wouldn’t say it would stop the person from hurting you though but more likely that they have evidence to convict them.
I was talking to someone who works security (unarmed). They aren't allowed body cams because they have to regularly check bathrooms & management doesn't trust them to remember to turn them off when they enter a bathroom
I'm a security officer myself it's interesting to see the country differences if we're working in a more dangerous environment we're given stab proof at most And body cams are typically only worn by money management officers like ATM clears etc and even then theirs two and they can't turn it off
I'm a gen z kid who was raised as a millennial, I have the ways of thinking like a millennial, does it make me more millennial, or more Gen z? I wanna know if there is even just a slight chance I don't have to associate myself with the weird as toilet stuff
@@Some-Random-dude23 You do know that nobody is beholden to act as the stereotype of their generation right? Just live your life as you see fit and dont worry about how others perceive you. Its really not that big a deal. And vice versa too. If other people like weird stuff, it really has nothing to do with you. Just find people you get along with who have similar interests and you dont really have to worry about the generational stereotypes. They're broad anyways and have never been all encompassing. There are always plenty of exceptions to every generation, dont let others' perceptions of you define you.
As a cop, I love this channel. Everyone deserves to be informed about their rights… and more often than not, Mike is right on the money about why cops to certain things. In this case, I can definitely say I don’t make a habit of putting my fingerprints on the back of cars, but some of the old-timers still do.
Still not sure why the officer hiding in my apartment complex, who stopped me for rolling through the stop sign right next to my building, asked to search the trunk. I didn't want to look suspicious so I said go ahead, but wtf? Was he just bored? I was maybe 20 seconds out from my apt and he just made me late for something.
@ Often times, when we find (or get complaints of) drugs in a particular area, we do targeted enforcement of that area for the purposes getting dope off the street. Lots of cops that sit at stop signs aren’t doing so to write tickets. That cop might be using the traffic stop as a method to make citizen contact for the purposes of finding drugs, drunks, or wanted persons. That being said, there’s nothing wrong with denying your consent for a search. If a cop has probably cause to search your trunk, then he will tell you… but if he’s asking, he likely doesn’t have probably cause to search. He’s just fishing. You’d be surprised how much drugs we find just by asking permission to search 🤷🏻♂️
@@Nuka-PaladinYour information is correct; I just wanted to add that while you can legally say no to an Officer searching your vehicle - as far as I've heard, if they actually do suspect something, they can then legally bring in a K9 Officer to sniff around the vehicle. If the dog finds something, they don't need to have your permission to search the vehicle.
Lol cops get fired for misconduct all the time due to internal investigations. The reason you believe this nonsense is because you hate cops and probably believe all kinds of lawful of action should be wrong
@@TJ-vh2psif a naked man jumped out of a trunk and attacked me I would be traumatized too 😂 Kim did such a good? (Idk if you can just call it good) job
@@mateuszzimon8216explanation: In most cases of crimes committed by police, the culprit will turn off any body cameras so that their actions are unrecorded. This makes them less likely to be convicted if the victim sues or files a complaint to the police department. I am a human and this action was performed manually.
When 2 or more cops feel like breaking the law and conveniently made up the most bogus lies/stories and looking 110% more suspicious than openly harassing people while at the same time being hostile at anyone video recording them especially when they don't video record themselves.
It’s turned off for many reasons. That’s assuming it ever turned on in the first place. There is more than $30k worth of equipments (GPS, computers, cell cards, radios, printers, multiple cameras, etc in one car). If there’s ever an opportunity for something not to work it’s in a police car. Just having a body cam doesn’t mean it works. It needs to be charged multiple times a shift and needs to routinely be resynched to the system manually. Your scenario is turning off though. Cops must follow their policy. Policy and law typically allows and sometimes requires it be turned off after scenes are safe, when only discussing amongst each other, anything personal, and a lot of protected things such as HIPAA material.
@Str8Shooter8 can they not edit this information out when using it as evidence, and then say it was censored for Hipaa violations? Having an unbroken video of what happened to hold people accountable if something goes wrong is literally the point of bodycams. Also can they not have a charging station and backup cameras? And also if they can do all of that, why can't they have a system that reports and keeps track of when an officer turns their camera off? It is immediately suspicious that these "highly trained" protectors can't do something as basic as have all their equipment ready. They can have an AR in the trunk ready to go, cleaned and oiled, but can't charge a damn battery?
@@Thobeian Well I think I addressed some of that in my initial comment, but ultimately you need to change the laws then. The laws and policies allow these things and in some cases order these things. I did comment on this but I'll into more detail. To equip an entire good sized PD with state of the art body cams that connect over a server and to the systems PD's already have, they can easily cost millions of dollars. Cops are not being issued TWO body cams. As I said, they need to be recharged throughout the shift, and resynched multiple times per shift. That charging dock is inside the squad car. You want them to charge it? OK well then it's not on them. You need to choose what you want? Sometimes they won't have it or it will always be with them but battery dead. Just like bluetooth drops all the time on devices, so do body cams. The copy won't even know. It needs to be resynched in the charging dock. You do know when they turn them off. They simply stop recording. That means they turned them off or battery died. Just like you don't want your personal unrelated conversations recorded at work, it's actually law that you can't record personal conversations of cops. It's the law. That's why they can also turn them off. In addition, the court has ruled certain work conversations or "work products" are not discoverable so again they can turn it off. You'll need to perfect technology and the law if you want it different. I'm simply sharing why it is the way it is.
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@@BunnySeerLook, this isn't coming from a place of hate, i wanted to humbly share the Love of Christ with you which is unmatched, unconditional and so Pure. The only requirement is for us to believe in Him as the Son of God wholeheartedly, to repent of our sins and pray to God to grow in the Faith. i myself am a sinner and need Christ more than ever. You need Christ too in your life today ❤✝️ You said you were not a girl, but my sibling in Christ, does that mean you're my brother in Christ, dear Bunny? Also i commented off your name since fortune telling and all kinds of magic practices are forbidden in the Bible (except maybe magic tricks for entertainment only which are based on illusions like a quick flick of the wrist with some cards) , the other practices which claim to be more than mere tricks and foretell future or speak to ghosts are all blatant lies and make us stray further from God. The Bible says that mediums should be avoided. Leviticus 19:31 NIV. "Do *not* turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them." Therefore it's important to abstain from any such practices and turn to God to be freed. Please take that into consideration my brother/sibling in Christ ❤✝️ and turn to God today ❤✝️🙌. God bless you.❤️🕊️✝️
This guy's being a doofus here (he's usually pretty accurate though.) They do it in case they get shot/killed as extra, possibly the only evidence to help identify the shooter/killer. For example, a common make and model car with obscured plates and a shooter wearing a mask (or with an otherwise obscured face) can thwart most, if not all of the modern technology they use.
@@averybushy8452 “YOUR KIND” ?!?!? tf is wrong with you. this is a real issue and your just gonna casually be more racist.. and for what ?? just remember: we all know your white ahh wouldn’t say that if you weren’t hiding behind a screen cuz you’d get beat tf up for saying shit like that for no reason (not even a threat i’m just reminding you of your mortality, kid)
@@averybushy8452 as a fellow white person (cuz we all know you’re white af) stfu abt a serious issue that we’re too lucky to fully understand. stop being r@cist cuz it really makes the rest of us white look like we’re time travelers from the 1800s.. coming out here with the “your kind” quote like your eugenics grandpa 🙄
He's being a bit of a doofus here though. They do it in case they get shot/killed. Cameras may not always catch the driver's face, which can make it harder to tie them to the crime. Especially if the car was of common make and model. Something like partially or fully obscured plates (or plates like the stupid ones my state recently put out that are hard to read at night with headlights) can make it much more difficult. The fingerprints can at least tie the officer to that vehicle, and their leaving them there will be caught on dash cam and likely body cam as well.
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Tbf US cops seem to have a problem with their cameras "accidentally" turning of right before someone gets beaten up Edit: to that one dude raging in the comments, im from finland and not from the US. we have an actually well functioning policeforce and justice system
@@GlitchingRobin Everything that comes out of a cop's mouth must be assumed to be lie until proven otherwise. If the cop and defense are saying two different things, in the absence of anything else believe the defense.
I understand another reason the police touch the trunk of the car is because if they do, and the trunk opens up, they don't need probable cause or a search warrant to look in the trunk.
1. There shouldnt be an option to turn off a cops camera 2. If their camera were to ever be disconnected another officer should be dispatched immediately to their last location
A good idea but doesn't work in practice toilet breaks are kinda necessary and private conversations happen They shouldn't be able to turn them off when actually doing police work though
@@Greatly_Incompetent the city or state shouldnt have an interest in seeing cops penises nor their private conversations. Im not asking the footage be streamed on twitch.
@Greatsly_Incompetent Privacy isn't an issue as most Bodycams are muted by default and a button press is needed for them to start recording audio, thats why if you look up any bodycam footage on YT there will ususally be beeping at the start
@@Greatly_Incompetentthey can get it off the uniform if they need a toilet break, otherwise tough shit, they are on duty, anything they do should be public knowledge, while they are on duty
I am law enforcement and when I went through the academy 17 years ago, they never suggested a trunk attack as the reason to touch the trunk. It was purely to provide evidence that the specific vehicle was the one we had contacted in case we get shot on the side of the road or something.
Like no one would wash their car. I wipe mine down after getting pulled over. Get the cooties and bad MOJO off. I want nothing to do with blue line gang members.
Dont the vast majority of cars nowadays have a latch release INSIDE the trunk so that whoever gets in there always has a way to open the trunk? Because that would make the cop pressing on the trunk to close it irrelevant
Old stuff, I don't see them do it anymore. But they do sometimes touch your rear taillight to leave their fingerprints on it. Personally I don't see a problem with that.
Many things cops do stem from incidents that happened in the past. Cops aren't allowed to put down their weapons in hostage situations **ever** because of something that happened in the 70s (I think) but at least that one still applies to this day.
@@marioformicadae6637 i get that im just saying that this specific habit really doesnt do anything anymore given that you cant lock someone in a car trunk anymore. I do think its better to be safe than sorry tho
@@marioformicadae6637 The biggest issue is that a lot of police training takes unlikely events and tells the police to constantly be on edge expecting them. They literally get trained to be ready to kill everyone they meet, It's a major reason why the police shoot so many people. Also, just in case anyone wants to respond with something along the lines of 'Well criminals might try and murder cops at any moment so they have to be ready' it's worth noting that in 2023 3 cops died due to 'Assault' and 48 due to 'gunfire'. In the same time period 1,163 people were shot and killed by cops. The police are absolutely too quick to resort to lethal force
@@legionk9884 I do because them leaving prints on your car doesn't really do much to benefit them. Someone would have to know to look at your car and hope you never take it to a car wash or repaint it. However, if someone's preparing to get stopped, it would open the cop up to a contact poison placed on the vehicle.
It's also worth noting that a lot of smaller police departments cannot afford body cams (I saw one the other day that still was using 90's crown Vics) so the trick is still useful today
I was a cop in a major US city in the late 2000s. I've heard about this for a while but I never did it, none of my coworkers did it, and we definitely weren't trained to do it. While walking up to a car, my hand was on my gun, my eyes were on the windows and mirrors to see what was happening inside the car. At night, I had a hand on my gun and the other holding my flashlight.
Yeah my husband is a cop and they don’t do any of these things. They have other stuff to worry about now when approaching a car. They don’t need to leave their fingerprints on the trunk. And I have been pulled over a couple times and the cops didn’t do this. It’s been years since I have been pulled over so I doubt the present day academy is training cops to do this.
@michaeljames4509 I'm an auto body tech and paint is a lot more fragile than most people think. The rough skin on the end of your fingers is enough to scratch paint, and if you add a layer of dirt like my car had, it's basically like sanding the paint. Plus my car had fresh paint, otherwise I would have had wax on it, the paint was only two weeks old when this happened. To be clear, I'm talking about micro scratches that will polish out.
worse, you're trained to treat every civilian as a potential threat to your life, and you don't get to turn that off like your camera. It stays with you even if you're just taking your dog for a walk. Which is sad, because 99% of the time, you're dealing with the bartender from Applebee's, not Scarface, and there's probably not a trained assassin in the trunk.
Years back, they put a small strip of special adhesive on your car, which showed up under black light, then they would flash cars that went by and know they had stopped them one or more times so, what was one more time! Usually used as part of a cops against drunk driving programs, and used at bar closing times for initial and followup meet and greets.
Wow, you actually got it right, I wasn’t expecting that. Those cameras record constantly though, they can’t really be “turned off”. When you hit the record button the camera starts saving the footage to a long term memory and begins recording sound, that’s why body cam footage has around 8 seconds of footage without sound, that footage was taken before the officer hit record.
Yea, I remember that Baltimore cop who got caught planting drugs, because the bodycams were new, and he didn't know that they were always recording. The body cam showed him planting the drugs, then walked back to his car, hit 'record' and now he pretended to stumble across them. He was found guilty, but only got probation.
The reason isn't true though. It's incase they get shot/killed. Body cam may not catch a good image of the driver's face. Combine that with a common make and model vehicle along with possible obscured or partially obscured plates (or swapped plates etc.) and tying the shooter to the crime could be difficult. The fingerprints will tie the officer to that vehicle while the dash cam and likely the body cam as well, will show them putting them there.
I mean, alternatively to the trunk attacker it is also a way to figure out if there is someone locked inside the trunk. This could help someone who is being kidnapped and awake enough to make noise/vibrations.
I went to the police academy in ‘68 and we were taught to touch the back of a car to ensure the trunk was locked & nobody would jump out and attack us. Don’t know if that ever happened but that’s the “why”.
Correct. It's part of what I learned in 'cop college' 20+ years ago. I've seen officers touch my vehicle's trunk, fenders, and tail gate. I understand it and approve. It does look a bit weird at times if the officer tries to discretely do it while I'm watching in a side mirror.
@@JayYoung-ro3vu cctv and streelight cameras made the fingerprinting redundant. a print on a car wouldn't give you anything today. only in really niche situation, so most officers shouldn't be doing it. all of those skin oils dirty my paint finish.
Now now, you can't rely on equipment 100% of the time. There have been enough cases showing body cams actually failing either by manufacturing errors or damage in the field. I do agree bad cops deliberately disable or never enable their cameras, but on the same note in the heat of things, you can very easily forget to activate it when you are in a life or death situation. Depending on the cameras too much could lead to issues for everyone's safety. Be sure to use your camera as well to reinforce what you can.
"I bet it does." Look up your local police department policy. I can almost promise you that the policy isn't to have a camera running non-stop. 1st, the battery won't last all shift. 2nd, for 10 hours of record time, you're looking at 4-5 hours of upload time. 3rd, the logistics of data storage infrastructure is a significant problem. Departments can't simply buy up warehouses of servers to store all that data. Most Departments have policy that officers activate the camera about a block out from arriving at a call and leave it running until about a block away from a call. Also, to activate the camera before coming to a stop during a traffic stop. Most cameras will record a set time frame before activation. For instance, I initiate a traffic stop, call out the stop on radio, lights on, activate camera. The video will add the 30 seconds prior to activation. This happens before stepping out of my vehicle. I don't "accidentally" turn my camera off. I turn it off intentionally, acting within policy (because I like my job and am unwilling to risk losing it). I turn it off because the scene and policy don't dictate the camera remains on.
My dad used to be a cop, he said that their number one goal is to go home that day, his second goal was his partner to go home. Then it was everyone else.
@@albtcklI don’t think a cop not wanting to be killed on the job is selfish. Someone not wanting to join up, but expects the cops to get killed does sound a bit selfish. What a weird thing to think is selfish, oh you don’t want to die at work? You must be selfish. I am a Soldier, I assure you our goal is also to go home at the end of the day as well, and we too serve the people. No one shows up to work wanting to be put in the forever box.
I for one am not a cop hater, like you dude. I appreciate that they put their lives at risk to keep us safe and law abiding. It's a stressful job and I appreciate that they are willing to do it.
@@blazingragnarok4089 I think "All cops are brave"? I'm not certain, but it probably has to do with cops and I'm not sure what the B would stand for... Either way, I hate general statements that "every something is something"... They're always stupid lmao.
@@alexanderinoa7850 Thank you! I'm not american so I wasn't sure myself I agree that general statements are stupid both the ones endorsing or hating something
Bodycams turning off during official police business should be immediate termination unless the bodycam is proven to be at fault Additionally, bodycams should be turned on and off remotely from a terminal at station, so they can't be deactivated by the officers themselves or bad actors turning it off to remove evidence of them assaulting the officer
I looked it up and vehicles were legally required to have release mechanisms inside the trunk starting September 1st 2001. The part about checking if the trunk is latched is obsolete for any car manufactured since then.
You might be right about the finger prints in the old days, I don't know. But internal trunk releases, in the event you're trapped in the trunk, have been mandated in the US since 2001. So "making sure the trunk is closed so no one can ambush you" makes no sense. You can still get out, no problem, even if its closed.
There is nothing funny about police turning off body cameras- they can completely change/manipulate the context and evidence/circumstances of a case. To make things worse law enforcement is a competitive culture based upon results. Scares the shit out of me way more than it probably should tbh tho…
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Just wait till you read up on their spy tech to see inside everyone's house.
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You are getting dragged by Andrew Flusche
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2010 Ford mustang?
Cops told me the reason they do it is they need a place to hide their boogers 😂
That "I bet it does" was full of spite, and I love it.
It’s rare that the best line in a short is the final one.
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@@Vladimir66616bro MIGHT be 5 years old 💀
ACAB!!!!
ACAB
This reminds me of being taught to claw and touch EVERYTHING if you're abducted, pull hair out, try to make yourself bleed, ANYTHING to leave as much evidence as possible
how would making yourself bleed leave evidence? I understand touching everything but what
@@ambrosiiasthe fingerprints and dna would be all over, i wouldn’t say it would stop the person from hurting you though but more likely that they have evidence to convict them.
@@rei4172 Yep, kinda the ultimate spiteful although positive I'm taking you down with me
On Law and Order the one lady bit the guy’s head and had his hair in the back of her throat. They did a DNA test and confirmed the killer
Well the woman was dead...
I was talking to someone who works security (unarmed). They aren't allowed body cams because they have to regularly check bathrooms & management doesn't trust them to remember to turn them off when they enter a bathroom
I'm a security officer myself it's interesting to see the country differences if we're working in a more dangerous environment we're given stab proof at most
And body cams are typically only worn by money management officers like ATM clears etc and even then theirs two and they can't turn it off
"The next reason the cops give your boot a tickle" -Mike (2024)
They put their prints on your taillight.
Greeting the trunk monkey.
2.2k likes and 2 comments? Lemme fix that
@@LightSpeedGod ruined it.
You ask Why? and suddenly the word boot has an extra y
"Yeah, I bet it does."
"Oh look it's happening right now."
From all the gen alpha brainrot videos I'd seen I was expecting him to say 'cap' at the end
@@tmar8959 Cap is a millennial/Gen Z slang term. Its been around for quite a while now.
@@tmar8959 cap isn't gen alpha
I'm a gen z kid who was raised as a millennial, I have the ways of thinking like a millennial, does it make me more millennial, or more Gen z? I wanna know if there is even just a slight chance I don't have to associate myself with the weird as toilet stuff
@@Some-Random-dude23 You do know that nobody is beholden to act as the stereotype of their generation right? Just live your life as you see fit and dont worry about how others perceive you. Its really not that big a deal. And vice versa too. If other people like weird stuff, it really has nothing to do with you. Just find people you get along with who have similar interests and you dont really have to worry about the generational stereotypes. They're broad anyways and have never been all encompassing. There are always plenty of exceptions to every generation, dont let others' perceptions of you define you.
As a cop, I love this channel. Everyone deserves to be informed about their rights… and more often than not, Mike is right on the money about why cops to certain things. In this case, I can definitely say I don’t make a habit of putting my fingerprints on the back of cars, but some of the old-timers still do.
Still not sure why the officer hiding in my apartment complex, who stopped me for rolling through the stop sign right next to my building, asked to search the trunk. I didn't want to look suspicious so I said go ahead, but wtf? Was he just bored? I was maybe 20 seconds out from my apt and he just made me late for something.
@ Often times, when we find (or get complaints of) drugs in a particular area, we do targeted enforcement of that area for the purposes getting dope off the street. Lots of cops that sit at stop signs aren’t doing so to write tickets. That cop might be using the traffic stop as a method to make citizen contact for the purposes of finding drugs, drunks, or wanted persons. That being said, there’s nothing wrong with denying your consent for a search. If a cop has probably cause to search your trunk, then he will tell you… but if he’s asking, he likely doesn’t have probably cause to search. He’s just fishing. You’d be surprised how much drugs we find just by asking permission to search 🤷🏻♂️
@Nuka-Paladin ah ok
ACAA
@@Nuka-PaladinYour information is correct; I just wanted to add that while you can legally say no to an Officer searching your vehicle - as far as I've heard, if they actually do suspect something, they can then legally bring in a K9 Officer to sniff around the vehicle. If the dog finds something, they don't need to have your permission to search the vehicle.
Bodycams turning off sometimes is one of life's greatest mysteries... along with why internal investigations always find no wrongdoing.
it's almost as if government agents having a monopoly on law enforcement is a problem...
Lol cops get fired for misconduct all the time due to internal investigations. The reason you believe this nonsense is because you hate cops and probably believe all kinds of lawful of action should be wrong
"We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing"
Cops can be so corrupted sometimes and yet still all wonder why we don’t trust a single word they say. Like politicians.
People in IT are crying over your comment
I was told by an officer that they touch the tail light in case you flee and they lose sight of you, it prooves they made contact.
Guess you need to wash that vehicle then.
@@LeeJones-wk7xvfingerprints will go on a clean car too
@@AcidArmy_they mean after a man finishes touching you, you have to wash up
@@AcidArmy_🤦♂️
Ayo? @@nicholas7743
The way he just said TRUCK ATTACK go me rolling on the floor🤣😂🤣
“TRUNK ATTACK!” Must have brought back some deep rooted trauma for officer Mike
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Officer Mike watched The Hangover and was never the same since. 😂
@@TJ-vh2psif a naked man jumped out of a trunk and attacked me I would be traumatized too 😂 Kim did such a good? (Idk if you can just call it good) job
"acorn police"
Trunk monkey exists.
“Yeah but it turns off sometimes” 💀💀
Yea I bet it does 😂
U can find a video where sheriff make somersult and hit ground and camera is still recording
@@mateuszzimon8216 nah that's not what he meant
@@mateuszzimon8216explanation: In most cases of crimes committed by police, the culprit will turn off any body cameras so that their actions are unrecorded. This makes them less likely to be convicted if the victim sues or files a complaint to the police department.
I am a human and this action was performed manually.
"And that should be illegal"
Yeah I bet it does. You're so real, Mr lawyer
The cameras always turn off at suspiciously convenient times😂
Isn’t that supposed to happen? How else could they get away with crime lol
Yeah exactly how else could they assault queer or colored people
It’s more like they delay the release of the video until after everyone has forgotten about the case 😅
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When 2 or more cops feel like breaking the law and conveniently made up the most bogus lies/stories and looking 110% more suspicious than openly harassing people while at the same time being hostile at anyone video recording them especially when they don't video record themselves.
"Yeah, but it turns off sometimes,"
"I bet it does" 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Whoa, it's the person from the steno reels.
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@@Kazihirom it turns off around black people
@@42seven it's because black people use black magic duh 🙄
TRUNK ATTACK😡😡😡 😂😂😂😂😂
A cop turning off their body cam should be considered destruction of evidence and obstruction of justice
It’s turned off for many reasons. That’s assuming it ever turned on in the first place. There is more than $30k worth of equipments (GPS, computers, cell cards, radios, printers, multiple cameras, etc in one car). If there’s ever an opportunity for something not to work it’s in a police car. Just having a body cam doesn’t mean it works. It needs to be charged multiple times a shift and needs to routinely be resynched to the system manually. Your scenario is turning off though. Cops must follow their policy. Policy and law typically allows and sometimes requires it be turned off after scenes are safe, when only discussing amongst each other, anything personal, and a lot of protected things such as HIPAA material.
yea especially if they're being investigated
@@Str8Shooter8
Expect that literally bullshit. Cop unions always fight even any requirement OF JUST WEARING ONE.
@Str8Shooter8 can they not edit this information out when using it as evidence, and then say it was censored for Hipaa violations? Having an unbroken video of what happened to hold people accountable if something goes wrong is literally the point of bodycams.
Also can they not have a charging station and backup cameras? And also if they can do all of that, why can't they have a system that reports and keeps track of when an officer turns their camera off?
It is immediately suspicious that these "highly trained" protectors can't do something as basic as have all their equipment ready. They can have an AR in the trunk ready to go, cleaned and oiled, but can't charge a damn battery?
@@Thobeian Well I think I addressed some of that in my initial comment, but ultimately you need to change the laws then. The laws and policies allow these things and in some cases order these things.
I did comment on this but I'll into more detail. To equip an entire good sized PD with state of the art body cams that connect over a server and to the systems PD's already have, they can easily cost millions of dollars. Cops are not being issued TWO body cams. As I said, they need to be recharged throughout the shift, and resynched multiple times per shift. That charging dock is inside the squad car. You want them to charge it? OK well then it's not on them. You need to choose what you want? Sometimes they won't have it or it will always be with them but battery dead. Just like bluetooth drops all the time on devices, so do body cams. The copy won't even know. It needs to be resynched in the charging dock. You do know when they turn them off. They simply stop recording. That means they turned them off or battery died.
Just like you don't want your personal unrelated conversations recorded at work, it's actually law that you can't record personal conversations of cops. It's the law. That's why they can also turn them off. In addition, the court has ruled certain work conversations or "work products" are not discoverable so again they can turn it off. You'll need to perfect technology and the law if you want it different. I'm simply sharing why it is the way it is.
"Yeah, I bet it does."
Shots fired 🤣
But not caught on film
@@BunnySeerChrist loves you and aches and pleads for you to turn to the Gospels and accept Him into your heart.
Christ loved us so much that He was willing to take on the punishment for our sins on the cross, paying with His Godly Life, so we could have a chance at being reunited with God the Father.
Jesus Christ - the Lamb of God and Son of God then rose on the third day and reunited with His Father in Heaven.
After that Christ appeared to over 500 people over a period of 40 days.
We are saved my sister in Christ, just put your Faith in Jesus and be healed, reborn and loved ❤by God
Be blessed by our Father my sister in Christ
@@SadnessIncarnate24 brother what are you on about? Also im not a girl 💗 id be your sibling in christ. And my friend ive read the whole bible twice?
@@BunnySeerLook, this isn't coming from a place of hate,
i wanted to humbly share the Love of Christ with you which is unmatched, unconditional and so Pure.
The only requirement is for us to believe in Him as the Son of God wholeheartedly, to repent of our sins and pray to God to grow in the Faith.
i myself am a sinner and need Christ more than ever.
You need Christ too in your life today ❤✝️
You said you were not a girl, but my sibling in Christ, does that mean you're my brother in Christ, dear Bunny?
Also i commented off your name since fortune telling and all kinds of magic practices are forbidden in the Bible (except maybe magic tricks for entertainment only which are based on illusions like a quick flick of the wrist with some cards) , the other practices which claim to be more than mere tricks and foretell future or speak to ghosts are all blatant lies and make us stray further from God.
The Bible says that mediums should be avoided.
Leviticus 19:31 NIV. "Do *not* turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them."
Therefore it's important to abstain from any such practices and turn to God to be freed. Please take that into consideration my brother/sibling in Christ ❤✝️
and turn to God today ❤✝️🙌.
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@@SadnessIncarnate24If Christ is real why doesn’t he simply prove it in an obvious fashion?
Also, it helps them determine if the car is running, which can be difficult to hear in traffic.
Does not work for my 2011 Nissan Leaf.
One criticism of the pedestrian alert system is that is does not operate while the car is not in motion.
“trunk attack” sounds like a move from mario bros 💀
😂😂😂😂😂😂You really made me rolling
Muahahaha 👊🤣😂🤣😂😭
Seen the trunk monkey videos?
No it doesn't
@@CharlieBruinsFilmsSomeone hasn't played the Paper Mario games it seems
You are literally wearing a Camera, “Yeah but it turns off sometimes” that line got me good (if you know you know)
Black ppl 🖤
Literally everyone knows.
This guy's being a doofus here (he's usually pretty accurate though.) They do it in case they get shot/killed as extra, possibly the only evidence to help identify the shooter/killer. For example, a common make and model car with obscured plates and a shooter wearing a mask (or with an otherwise obscured face) can thwart most, if not all of the modern technology they use.
@@averybushy8452 “YOUR KIND” ?!?!? tf is wrong with you. this is a real issue and your just gonna casually be more racist.. and for what ??
just remember: we all know your white ahh wouldn’t say that if you weren’t hiding behind a screen cuz you’d get beat tf up for saying shit like that for no reason (not even a threat i’m just reminding you of your mortality, kid)
@@averybushy8452 as a fellow white person (cuz we all know you’re white af) stfu abt a serious issue that we’re too lucky to fully understand. stop being r@cist cuz it really makes the rest of us white look like we’re time travelers from the 1800s.. coming out here with the “your kind” quote like your eugenics grandpa 🙄
Ok good tips I'll use it next time 😊👍
Law by Mike is one the best content creators and is a real lawyer. He makes learning law look fun
He's being a bit of a doofus here though. They do it in case they get shot/killed. Cameras may not always catch the driver's face, which can make it harder to tie them to the crime. Especially if the car was of common make and model. Something like partially or fully obscured plates (or plates like the stupid ones my state recently put out that are hard to read at night with headlights) can make it much more difficult. The fingerprints can at least tie the officer to that vehicle, and their leaving them there will be caught on dash cam and likely body cam as well.
Shut up
calling out the shocking frequency of bodycams "turning off" during important events. as you should
You can't turn off body cams.
@@dillonpeterson66 bet
I don't see how it is in the slightest.
Shocking frequency, can you give a statistic or are you just permanently stuck in an anti-authority temper tantrum?
@@homelessalcoholic2716SOGAY
Heyyy, Mike!!!
I'm one of your followers, I'm a HUGE fan of you!!!
.Honestly, I was never interested in learning laws until I stumbled on your videos!!!
Honestly, you make laws fun!!!
So, um... I had a question...
Could you do a question and answer short...?
Like, you have already uploaded soo many videos, and now your followers can see if they actually paid attention!!!
That would be REALLY fun, so...
“you got it officer”
*proceeds to start yapping*
It’s not illegal for a cop to lie to you. I don’t see why it wouldn’t go both ways.
The Golden Rule IS the best
Tbf US cops seem to have a problem with their cameras "accidentally" turning of right before someone gets beaten up
Edit: to that one dude raging in the comments, im from finland and not from the US. we have an actually well functioning policeforce and justice system
Oooh, camera conveniently shut off before someone was bruised so badly they sent 2 weeks in the ICU... looks like a case of battery to me.
Or before getting in the backseat 😏
@@ZeldagigafanMatthewnah man, it was clearly self inflicted 🫠
@@GlitchingRobin Everything that comes out of a cop's mouth must be assumed to be lie until proven otherwise.
If the cop and defense are saying two different things, in the absence of anything else believe the defense.
@@ZeldagigafanMatthew most brainrotted take I've seen my entire life, smh
I understand another reason the police touch the trunk of the car is because if they do, and the trunk opens up, they don't need probable cause or a search warrant to look in the trunk.
Mikes favorite game is probably ace attorney
I mean it is a goated game shoutout maya fey.
Mike is just the real life Phoenix Wright
It's a great game, I got it on my DS
*_"OBJECTION!!!"_*
@@The_True_Guy_Who_Asked bro would absolutely cross-examine a parrot if he had the chance lmao
1. There shouldnt be an option to turn off a cops camera
2. If their camera were to ever be disconnected another officer should be dispatched immediately to their last location
A good idea but doesn't work in practice toilet breaks are kinda necessary and private conversations happen
They shouldn't be able to turn them off when actually doing police work though
@@Greatly_Incompetent the city or state shouldnt have an interest in seeing cops penises nor their private conversations. Im not asking the footage be streamed on twitch.
@Greatsly_Incompetent Privacy isn't an issue as most Bodycams are muted by default and a button press is needed for them to start recording audio, thats why if you look up any bodycam footage on YT there will ususally be beeping at the start
@@Greatly_Incompetentthey can get it off the uniform if they need a toilet break, otherwise tough shit, they are on duty, anything they do should be public knowledge, while they are on duty
@@kolyashinkarev7366 I guess
I'm all for the idea I'm just trying to think about practicality and being realistic
"dont give an informational monologue to the camera while im gone"
"you got it officer"
**gives an informational monologue to the camera**
I am law enforcement and when I went through the academy 17 years ago, they never suggested a trunk attack as the reason to touch the trunk. It was purely to provide evidence that the specific vehicle was the one we had contacted in case we get shot on the side of the road or something.
Just touching the boot does not prevent the "trunk attack" finisher! You haven't opened it, you don't know the contents.
@@Toreadorification Yeah, I'm starting to think that part was a joke.
Like no one would wash their car.
I wipe mine down after getting pulled over. Get the cooties and bad MOJO off.
I want nothing to do with blue line gang members.
@@drumsticknuggets5123 What a strange and neurotic thing to do.
@@drumsticknuggets5123Like everyone would wash their car.
I’ve got Ptsd from my latest trunk attack stay safe guys
😂🤣😂🤣👍
@@someone.36 what if its not a joke??
Thank you Mike
I have known why for over thirty years having worked in the Criminal Justice System. it is to leave a fingerprint or prints if something goes wrong.
It is a way to track the vehicle and verify vehicle and suspect if things go south.
Dont the vast majority of cars nowadays have a latch release INSIDE the trunk so that whoever gets in there always has a way to open the trunk? Because that would make the cop pressing on the trunk to close it irrelevant
Old stuff, I don't see them do it anymore. But they do sometimes touch your rear taillight to leave their fingerprints on it. Personally I don't see a problem with that.
Many things cops do stem from incidents that happened in the past. Cops aren't allowed to put down their weapons in hostage situations **ever** because of something that happened in the 70s (I think) but at least that one still applies to this day.
@@marioformicadae6637 i get that im just saying that this specific habit really doesnt do anything anymore given that you cant lock someone in a car trunk anymore. I do think its better to be safe than sorry tho
@@marioformicadae6637 The biggest issue is that a lot of police training takes unlikely events and tells the police to constantly be on edge expecting them. They literally get trained to be ready to kill everyone they meet, It's a major reason why the police shoot so many people.
Also, just in case anyone wants to respond with something along the lines of 'Well criminals might try and murder cops at any moment so they have to be ready' it's worth noting that in 2023 3 cops died due to 'Assault' and 48 due to 'gunfire'. In the same time period 1,163 people were shot and killed by cops. The police are absolutely too quick to resort to lethal force
@@legionk9884 I do because them leaving prints on your car doesn't really do much to benefit them.
Someone would have to know to look at your car and hope you never take it to a car wash or repaint it.
However, if someone's preparing to get stopped, it would open the cop up to a contact poison placed on the vehicle.
Wow this is so good and done in such a wonderful way. Amusing and informative. Thank you.
Mike's "yeah, I bet it does" with that look made my day.
It's also worth noting that a lot of smaller police departments cannot afford body cams (I saw one the other day that still was using 90's crown Vics) so the trick is still useful today
Thanks for the information
I was a cop in a major US city in the late 2000s. I've heard about this for a while but I never did it, none of my coworkers did it, and we definitely weren't trained to do it. While walking up to a car, my hand was on my gun, my eyes were on the windows and mirrors to see what was happening inside the car. At night, I had a hand on my gun and the other holding my flashlight.
Yeah my husband is a cop and they don’t do any of these things. They have other stuff to worry about now when approaching a car. They don’t need to leave their fingerprints on the trunk. And I have been pulled over a couple times and the cops didn’t do this. It’s been years since I have been pulled over so I doubt the present day academy is training cops to do this.
I've only had a cop do this once, he actually drew an X in the dirt on my trunk lid and scratched the hell out of my paint!
What a total Adam Henry.
That cop must have had some serious ptsd from a rrunk attack
What did he do, use a screwdriver?
@michaeljames4509 I'm an auto body tech and paint is a lot more fragile than most people think. The rough skin on the end of your fingers is enough to scratch paint, and if you add a layer of dirt like my car had, it's basically like sanding the paint. Plus my car had fresh paint, otherwise I would have had wax on it, the paint was only two weeks old when this happened. To be clear, I'm talking about micro scratches that will polish out.
@@CarswithNashusername checks out. Factcheck finds your story: credible
This man is like a Nightmare to any cop in the USA
Being trained to imagine every possible threat at all times sounds like a living hell.
It makes you want to stay home most of the time.
worse, you're trained to treat every civilian as a potential threat to your life, and you don't get to turn that off like your camera. It stays with you even if you're just taking your dog for a walk. Which is sad, because 99% of the time, you're dealing with the bartender from Applebee's, not Scarface, and there's probably not a trained assassin in the trunk.
Years back, they put a small strip of special adhesive on your car, which showed up under black light, then they would flash cars that went by and know they had stopped them one or more times so, what was one more time! Usually used as part of a cops against drunk driving programs, and used at bar closing times for initial and followup meet and greets.
TRUNK ATTACK🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🗣
Trunk attack! 💀 Noooo🙀 😂😂😂 lol I love how he portrays police putting their finger prints on cars 🤣🤣
Wow, you actually got it right, I wasn’t expecting that. Those cameras record constantly though, they can’t really be “turned off”. When you hit the record button the camera starts saving the footage to a long term memory and begins recording sound, that’s why body cam footage has around 8 seconds of footage without sound, that footage was taken before the officer hit record.
Yea, I remember that Baltimore cop who got caught planting drugs, because the bodycams were new, and he didn't know that they were always recording. The body cam showed him planting the drugs, then walked back to his car, hit 'record' and now he pretended to stumble across them. He was found guilty, but only got probation.
Not all cameras behave that way. Some don’t start recording until the button is pressed. That’s wishful thinking
@@MarionettemontyIt’s not really wishful thinking when that is how most cops’ body cams work.
Thanks for the information!
That "Yeah, i bet it does" was based asf
Are you sure it is? Most of the comments rebutting are saying that you can't actually turn them off.
@@VicecrackVoldermort there's a pretty big difference between Can't turn them off, and Not Supposed to turn them off.
@@X20Adam Yeah, they're saying you can't.
@@VicecrackVoldermortits still an electronic device. if theres a will theres a way. i doubt every single precinct uses the same model of camera either
It's also used to see if a vehicle is still running or not. Some are just too quiet these days.
That'd only work on an engine that isn't smooth though, not a big or high end one
Ricky was kidding in the back lol.
Just so you guys know, this is very true, but usually it’s the tail light closest to them
The reason isn't true though. It's incase they get shot/killed. Body cam may not catch a good image of the driver's face. Combine that with a common make and model vehicle along with possible obscured or partially obscured plates (or swapped plates etc.) and tying the shooter to the crime could be difficult. The fingerprints will tie the officer to that vehicle while the dash cam and likely the body cam as well, will show them putting them there.
"Trunk ATTACK" 😂😂😂😂😂
Never again😂😂
😂🤣😂🤣👍
I mean, alternatively to the trunk attacker it is also a way to figure out if there is someone locked inside the trunk. This could help someone who is being kidnapped and awake enough to make noise/vibrations.
I went to the police academy in ‘68 and we were taught to touch the back of a car to ensure the trunk was locked & nobody would jump out and attack us. Don’t know if that ever happened but that’s the “why”.
Interesting...I had figured it was something Washington Sniper-related.
Interesting, I recently found out the same thing from a RUclips Short that I watched
@@UnprofessionalProfessor Not really, my academy training was in ‘68, long before the Beltway Sniper guy.
"TRUNK ATTACK" Noooooooo!!
they do it to see if the car is real, if it's not real their hand will just go right through it
Finding the officer isnt the reason, its to prove that your car was the one they made contact with.
Correct. It's part of what I learned in 'cop college' 20+ years ago.
I've seen officers touch my vehicle's trunk, fenders, and tail gate. I understand it and approve. It does look a bit weird at times if the officer tries to discretely do it while I'm watching in a side mirror.
And hasn't applied anymore since the 90s ever since dash cams and CCTV became a thing.
Body and dash cams were universally required until a decade ago. Still, any detective needs all the evidence in a case.
@@JayYoung-ro3vu cctv and streelight cameras made the fingerprinting redundant. a print on a car wouldn't give you anything today. only in really niche situation, so most officers shouldn't be doing it. all of those skin oils dirty my paint finish.
@@aouyiu I will still disagree.
"don't give an informational monologue to the camera while im gone" lmaoo
Then proceeds to do just that, the very second the cop goes away.. 👌
Now now, you can't rely on equipment 100% of the time. There have been enough cases showing body cams actually failing either by manufacturing errors or damage in the field. I do agree bad cops deliberately disable or never enable their cameras, but on the same note in the heat of things, you can very easily forget to activate it when you are in a life or death situation.
Depending on the cameras too much could lead to issues for everyone's safety. Be sure to use your camera as well to reinforce what you can.
Body cams on cops should not be able to be turned off by cops.
And then, cops would carry a lens cap.
Mike's like a Grandpa "BACK IN MA DAY"
Informative and funny as hell 😂 Instant subscribe!
"I bet it does"
Flashback to the cop steaming in the back seat with the suspect caught lacking 💀
"I bet it does"
Great line.
Why
Honestly that’s pretty reasonable and makes sense
Who would get mad at that
That trunk attack was so brutal I almost couldn't watch it😢
Just be glad it wasn't trunk monkey
i got flashback from my last trunk attack 🫣
"I bet it does."
Look up your local police department policy. I can almost promise you that the policy isn't to have a camera running non-stop.
1st, the battery won't last all shift.
2nd, for 10 hours of record time, you're looking at 4-5 hours of upload time.
3rd, the logistics of data storage infrastructure is a significant problem. Departments can't simply buy up warehouses of servers to store all that data.
Most Departments have policy that officers activate the camera about a block out from arriving at a call and leave it running until about a block away from a call. Also, to activate the camera before coming to a stop during a traffic stop.
Most cameras will record a set time frame before activation.
For instance, I initiate a traffic stop, call out the stop on radio, lights on, activate camera. The video will add the 30 seconds prior to activation. This happens before stepping out of my vehicle.
I don't "accidentally" turn my camera off. I turn it off intentionally, acting within policy (because I like my job and am unwilling to risk losing it).
I turn it off because the scene and policy don't dictate the camera remains on.
Shhh, people want to be paranoid and have weird fantasies about cops.
Stop being reasonable.
@@horatiusromanusstop being logical i want to hate authority!!!
I always thought it was to check for dents where drugs were stored.
"Trunk Attack!" Sounds so funny and random. 😂
My dad used to be a cop, he said that their number one goal is to go home that day, his second goal was his partner to go home. Then it was everyone else.
Pretty selfish when you're supposed to be a servant of the community.
@@albtcklI don’t think a cop not wanting to be killed on the job is selfish. Someone not wanting to join up, but expects the cops to get killed does sound a bit selfish. What a weird thing to think is selfish, oh you don’t want to die at work? You must be selfish.
I am a Soldier, I assure you our goal is also to go home at the end of the day as well, and we too serve the people. No one shows up to work wanting to be put in the forever box.
@@horatiusromanus what you wanna go home to your family and children?
Pretty selfish of you
The next reason cops give your boot a TICKLE??? 😭🙏
I for one am not a cop hater, like you dude. I appreciate that they put their lives at risk to keep us safe and law abiding. It's a stressful job and I appreciate that they are willing to do it.
Yeah I bet it does
They also put their hand on tue back of the trunk to make sure you aren't holding anybody hostage/kiddnapping somebody
Hey i saw a ad that STOLE YOUR VID!
Wait til the cop finds out about door handles on the inside of the boot😂
Ahh yes I always keep somebody in my trunk
Cops cam turning off is as often as McDonalds ice cream machine breaks down.
"Yeah but it turns off sometimes!"
"Oh yeah.. i bet it does--"
Bro rlly said ACAB and I'm all here for it
What does ACAB mean
@@blazingragnarok4089
I think "All cops are brave"? I'm not certain, but it probably has to do with cops and I'm not sure what the B would stand for... Either way, I hate general statements that "every something is something"... They're always stupid lmao.
@@alexanderinoa7850 Thank you! I'm not american so I wasn't sure myself
I agree that general statements are stupid both the ones endorsing or hating something
@@blazingragnarok4089 it's "all cops are bad" ... maybe
anyways it's an anarchist thing, just point and laugh
TRUNK ATTACK too me out😂😭💀💀why Mike
Goes through car wash
"You're literally wearing a camera"
Gen alpha: 😮
What?
what was this supposed to mean?
@@fuejrbtb Skibidi
@@iforbot7732 thank you
Subbed for that end line 😂
They’re checking for a Trunk Monkey. 😂 IYKYK
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Bodycams turning off during official police business should be immediate termination unless the bodycam is proven to be at fault
Additionally, bodycams should be turned on and off remotely from a terminal at station, so they can't be deactivated by the officers themselves or bad actors turning it off to remove evidence of them assaulting the officer
"THIS IS FOR MY SAFETY"
"put the law down!!!"
Did Mike really not listen to the officer and still gave his monologue😱
Thanks that's.my favourite bro😅
THANK YOU MIKE FOR NEVER LOVING THESE OFFICERS
I looked it up and vehicles were legally required to have release mechanisms inside the trunk starting September 1st 2001. The part about checking if the trunk is latched is obsolete for any car manufactured since then.
Bro's being a bad boy
A naughty boy even
You might be right about the finger prints in the old days, I don't know. But internal trunk releases, in the event you're trapped in the trunk, have been mandated in the US since 2001. So "making sure the trunk is closed so no one can ambush you" makes no sense. You can still get out, no problem, even if its closed.
"Boot a tickle" 💀💀
LMFAO UR HILAROUS BRO
There is nothing funny about police turning off body cameras- they can completely change/manipulate the context and evidence/circumstances of a case. To make things worse law enforcement is a competitive culture based upon results. Scares the shit out of me way more than it probably should tbh tho…
I love how informative and funny this is😂😂
"Yeah, I bet it does," selectively. 😂
You can never be too safe. Old techniques still have their place.
"I bet it does" love that ending, so true!
The cop is giving my what a tickle. Mike I'm gonna need to know some protective laws against that