SEATTLE—
Bad guys beware: your actions could soon be recorded by a Seattle Police officer's shirt-mounted video camera.Much like a machete-wielding man was caught on video in another city.
"Put the gun down!" a police officer shouts in a video recorded by another police department, from a shirt-mounted camera made by Seattle-based company "Vievu".
The camera records the suspect's every move -- showing you exactly what goes down.
Seattle Councilmember Bruce Harrell thinks all Seattle officers should be equipped cameras like that, attached to their lapels or to an ear device.
"Our officers, if they're listening to the testimony of other officers in other cities, should embrace this quite readily," Harrell says. "They're showing that more prosecutions result as a result of this, public nuisances decrease. People, citizens and residents and business owners act a little different on camera."
Police agencies in San Jose, Victoria, Scotland and England have given the cameras a try -- recording traffic stops and other crimes.
So far the results have been positive.
A demonstration of the latest camera technologies will take place in the Seattle City Council Chambers -- next Wednesday at noon.
