Imagine the Expense

The House Committee on Security and Public Safety of the Florida Legislature. voted down a measure 10-1 that would have required that the police record all interrogations in felony cases. One reason was the costs. This is downright funny. Looking at this mornings paper, I noticed that the 750 gb my book external hard drive cost $159. How many hows of interrogation would that hold? The legislature must be assuming that every person arrested for a felony is questioned. I would guess roughly 10 percent are, at best. They also talks about the transitions from a witness to a suspect. Everyone knows that the police routinely talk to the client prior to putting them on tape so that their methods (often the methods used in the Reid techniques) are not discovered. Then after they get them to say what they want them to say, then they put them on tape.

Ironically, if you want to question a police officer about a shooting, you are required to have every word he utters recorded, pursuant to the "Police Bill of Rights" established by Florida Statutes. I guess our constitutional bill of rights is far less important than the police bill of rights.