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Why Aren't All DUI Investigations Videotaped?

By Ron Chapman

Why aren't all DUI investigations videotaped?  Perhaps it's because police departments across the country are afraid that such a practice might result in more jury acquittals than is presently the case.The following story, which appears in the blog of the Criminal Lawyers' Association in Harris County Texas, addresses this very issue:You might think that the Houston Police Department would be eager to use video equipment to record DWI arrests. After all, the video will provide strong evidence of the defendant's physical and mental faculties at the time of the arrest. And if there's a video you can more easily protect yourself against complaints of misconduct. So if you were a police department making righteous arrests and not mistreating people, you'd be eager to have every stage of the arrest documented on video...continue to full post

Full post as published by Palm Beach Criminal Defense Blog on April 07, 2008 (boomark / email).