After seeing the news in Canada and the U.S. how there's a rise in an abuse of power, mostly those armed in uniform, do you think police body cams should be mandatory and on at all times?

Yes. It's long overdue.

You do know that it's not really a rise. The internet and 24/7 news cycle brings to light what has been happening forever.

Police have been acting more like an occupying army than a police force, especially in minority communities, for decades.

Social media is twisting things how they want to push their agenda and MSM plays right along with it. Cameras are every where now not only body cameras, but everybody has a phone with a camera at all times. Clearly George Floyds death was caused by his use of drugs and his health issues. He was higher then a kite when he was passing the fake $20 bill and when the cops showed he shoved a bunch of the drugs into his mouth. Some of these drugs were recovered partially dissolved in the back of the police car. One year earlier in a similar arrest of him he also tried swallowing a bunch of drugs because they can't charge you for the drugs being in your system. Floyd complained about not being able to breath before he was ever taken to the ground. All the effects and cause of death are fentanyl overdose symptoms. Floyd even pisses himself while on the ground because he could no longer control his functions. This case has become a political ploy, and race right campaign that has brainwashed most of the US that somehow these thugs should get some kind of respect.
Also in current news, another loser thug Daunte that was shot near Minneapolis after a traffic stop where they discovered he had a warrant. While trying to cuff him Daunte was able to slip away and get back into the car. The officer grabbed her hand gun thinking it was here taser. However as soon as Daunte got back into that car the officers have no idea if he is going for a weapon, and the car its self is a lethal weapon in its self that is just as dangerous as a gun and there for they have every right to take ANY action needed to stop him. Quit defending these thugs with extensive criminal records that do everything they can to get away from the police.

You're setting your sights too low.
Look higher than the law enforcement personnel.

The problem begins with elected politicians,
and appointed officials, who continue to
allow the abuses happen to this very day.

A fish always rots from the head.
Even a police chief has a boss.
And, that boss has a boss.

I think anyone whose paycheck is wholly or primarily dependent upon redistributed "tax dollars" should wear a body cam at all times and footage ultimately available via FOIA.
If you're going to be a "public servant," and operating in the interest of the "public," then you don't get anything beyond reasonable privacy, like what people get on public property.

e.g. when Obama met with lobbyists for the H1B program, behind closed doors.
Or when Obama met with drug companies and health insurers and their lobbyists, behind closed doors.
Or when Obama met with senators to get them to vote for Obamacare, behind closed doors.

Politicians playing the race card, it has happened many times in history. Lincoln, the Kennedy's, Ohbama, and Biden with picking Karmela Harris, and many more. Now the big corporations are playing the race card too. Jake from state farm became black face, support black owned businesses? What happened to everyone being equal? Its racist to do something just because of someone's skin color whether it good or bad. All of this is being brain washed into our youth and many people are encouraging it to happen over some criminals that shouldn't of been out of jail in the first place. Now black youth think they should be able to get away with anything and not be punished. Doing drugs, theft, carrying guns, running from the police. Pop culture is responsible for much of this from the media, music, movies, and TV. Things do need to change in black communities, but its up to the people in these communities to get off their ***** and do something instead of standing there with their hands out, collecting money, then not doing anything to change things.

Pretty sure you are being fed a false narrative. The stats and the reality of these big news events don't support the narrative that the propagand ministries are putting ou. But YES..body cams are a great thing and should be used all the time. Funny thing that the media doesn't tell today...body cams were pushed by both civil rights activists and media 10 years ago. Many police departments adopted them. And the films started revealing that the vilifying narrative of the left towards law enforcement was unfounded. So now you rarely hear a big pro-bodycam push from the media. Body cams tend to tell truth and that's the last thing the left or it's lapdog media want out there for you to see.

Should body cams be worn by cops? Sure.

Should show like Live PD that ACTUALLY showed what cops face on a YEARLY, WEEKLY, DAILY and HOURLY basis be removed from TV??? NO!!!!!
But it was removed because it showed the narrative LIE that cops are ALWAYS WRONG that leftists, radical Democrats and the MSM wants people to believe!!!

well said, we the people have lost our country a FEW.....

Look, most cops do a ****** job that not a lot of people want to do, and they do it well. But there are also quite a few ****** cops that need to be removed from the force. It has nothing to do with, liberals, leftists, MSN, or Democrats. That type of pathetic, close ranks, police can do no wrong thinking is only going to lead to more untrust of the department and chaos in our minority communities, and throughout the country as a whole.

Cops are racist pigs wanting to kill the black man. So we should defund or abolish the policing of our country as it currently exists. That is the narrative the dems. the MSM and a whole bunch of disillusioned people are trying to perpetuate. One example is the way they use a bad situation like a cop shooting a person. Every shooting that involved that a cop and a black person , the media plastered the cops picture and name on every media outlet but how about the cop that shot the unarmed white woman trying to enter the Capitol building. She was crawling through a window or a partly open doorway when the cop shot her. He was exonerated for that killing but they will not publish his name or photo. Don’t tell me the democrats propaganda machine isn’t complicit with that narrative. Icon msnbc abc cbs. If you listen to one you’ve herd them all. They all have the same talking points. .. And yes I like the idea of body cams as long as they are very small and don’t encumber the officer.

The capital cop who shot the lady did have his name and photo released and published.

According to NBC today . The Capitol police dept. told the woman’s family , no charges will be brought on the officer who has not been publicly identified.

How many occupying army’s have you seen that don’t react when the people they are supposedly occupying throw water or eggs and rocks at them . Don’t you remember the videos of cops in the minority community’s walking away while getting humiliated like that. Seems pretty timid for a occupying army. I Do think that the cop who killed George Floyd was responsible for his death . He should have been picked up and put in the squad car instead of kneeling on the mans neck. Guilty of something , not first degree. A handful of bad cops shouldn’t condemn the whole force.

Apparently the media has gotten into your head too and you have only seen Chauvin kneeling on Flyods back. If you would have seen more you would have seen they HAD HIM IN THE CAR, but has to drag him out because he was out of control. While he was in the car he tried to spit out some of the drugs he had taken to try to hide. Have you ever seen anybody overdose? Happens all the time, go hang out at a drug treatment facility for a week and see what these people look like coming in. Floyd did the same things in an arrest just the year before the incident. He also overdosed 2 months prior to his death. The officers detained him while waiting for the medics in order to keep him from harming himself or anybody else, that's was in Floyds best interest, however Flyod had too many drugs in his system, a bad heart, recent covid, and the anxiety of knowing he was going back to jail. The officers job is to serve and protect, not to treat some POS from having an overdose. Things happen in Suburbia and Hicksville as well and nobody gets all worked up when a white POS dies and police are involved.

It's the gangs in minority communities that have acting like occupying armies at war with each other for decades. People don't put bars on their doors and windows because of cops. Cops aren't who are killing innocent people caught in the cross fire between the occupying armies of gangs. Cops aren't driving down streets and shooting into houses or groups of people at a gathering. That is what is actually going on in minority communities, minority cities that have been controlled by Democrats for decades. Why have the mayors in cities like Chicago and Baltimore allowed criminal gangs to continue killing people for DECADES????

Detroit's police chief James Craig, a BLACK man, basically told Detroit residents to arm themselves because the police can't protect them from the criminals in the city. In the vast majority of occurrences instances cops arrive on the scene AFTER a crime has been committed.

So what excuses can you all come up with for the deadly shooting of
13 year old, Adam Toledo, by a chicago police officer?

We don't need excuses. So why is a 13 year old boy running around with a 21 year old thug at 2:30 in the morning? The police call was for shots fired. Toledo ran from the cop until he got to a fence where he threw the GUN he was holding as he was putting up his hands. Its a split second decision on the cop to shot or be shot. Shot first and ask questions later if you want to live another day. Not sure why this story is relevant unless you are trying to prove it is not only black people being killed by cops.

Read the OP again, it stated nothing about race. He was told to turn around and put
his hands up, which he did, and then he was shot in the chest. No excuses can make
this right.