Police body-cams film them in the john.

[Perd Hapley]

You knew this would happen.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/police-bodycams-filmed-officers-using-8307561

I'm still surprised there's so little blowback to the idea of police recording everything that goes on around them, including (perhaps?) in public restrooms.

[K Frame]

Shades of Police Squad II or whatever where Leslie Nielsen's character goes into the john with an active microphone during the ceremonial dinner welcoming the Queen of England to the city.

[Kingcreek]

The priest at my wife's church didn't realize he had to turn his new mic off when he went in to drain his bladder. The congregation found it entertaining.

[Firethorn]

I'm still surprised there's so little blowback to the idea of police recording everything that goes on around them, including (perhaps?) in public restrooms.

Hmm...  why should there be?  After all, part of the reason they're getting the cams is to fight police corruption, right?

That being said, the recordings said cams make are evidence.  I'd view it a bit like videotaping a surgery or something.  You store 'everything' for the mandated period of time, if a public information request comes in you chop out the irrelevant stuff, and you store the relevant stuff(IE involved in a case) for as long as necessary.  Bits good for historical or training purposes are kept indefinitely. 

[Perd Hapley]

Hmm...  why should there be?  After all, part of the reason they're getting the cams is to fight police corruption, right?

That doesn't stop people from objecting to unintended consequences.

[KD5NRH]

Unless they're doing something pretty inappropriate and/or anatomically unlikely, all it's going to get is the inside of a stall door or the top of a urinal.

I guess they're offended that they can't get a quickie without being recorded.

[BlueStarLizzard]

Unless they're doing something pretty inappropriate and/or anatomically unlikely, all it's going to get is the inside of a stall door or the top of a urinal.

I guess they're offended that they can't get a quickie without being recorded.

I think someone on this board would like mandatory body cams on everyone who uses the men's restrooms in the building where he works...

[griz]

Unless they're doing something pretty inappropriate and/or anatomically unlikely, all it's going to get is the inside of a stall door or the top of a urinal.

I guess they're offended that they can't get a quickie without being recorded.

I'm assuming the objection is that they will be recording other people using the restroom.  Much the same as they will record uninvolved people in arrests and naked people getting medical aid.  Transparency reveals more than bad behavior.