MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – The attorney for Michael Brown's family called for a nationwide law requiring all police officers to wear body cameras, and officials in Miami-Dade County agree.
"This is the way of the future, it's inevitable, it's coming," said Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez.
To Gimenez, it's a no-brainer that body cameras recording what police officers see might have altered the course of events in Ferguson and prevented the discrepancies in reports on why Officer Darren Wilson shot the unarmed 18-year-old.
This year's budget in Miami-Dade County includes $ 1 million to equip 500 county officers with cameras similar to the 50 cameras the City of Miami is currently testing.
"The history of disturbances that we've had in this community have always been a police officer and some kind of discrepancy with shooting another person," said Gimenez. "And the witnesses say one thing and the officer has another story. Body cameras will put that to rest."
Still, the county police union boss warns the devil is in the details.
"The brain works with the eye, and when we see you as a threat, then we go into tunnel vision," said John Rivera of the Police Benevolent Association. "Is the camera going to capture 180 degrees where the human eye can't? At night time, will it have night vision capabilities that the human eye doesn't?"
The Miami-Dade County Commission will take up the issue on police body cameras next week.
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