Ray Kelly on Body Cameras for Police: ‘The Time Has Come’

BARTIROMO: “Let me ask you about New York City for a moment because there is a feeling that police officers are afraid to do their jobs, because they are under attack. People are calling it the ‘Ferguson effect’. Is that true?”
KELLY: “I have never seen a police officer in my over 40 years experience ever run from danger. So it’s — it’s a different kind of concern that they have. And this is not just in New York, but it’s all over America. They are concerned about their career, they are concerned about their families well-being, so much of what our police officers do is discretionary. So, yeah, I think they are holding back. [indecipherable] not  necessarily recommend it, but I think this is the world in which we live in. You know, they’re applying their version of common sense and why get involved, when I can still get my pay, and have my job and not do things that are controversial. We see everybody now, over the age of 10, with a camera. So, every incident where there any sort of struggle, whatever, is probably being filmed and chances are it's being misinterpreted.”
BARTIROMO: “So, should the police be wearing cameras?”
KELLY: “Well, I think they should. Because that — that issue has kind of passed us on, the train, has left the station. And it will at least give the us potential of seeing the whole incident. The whole of it. When you see these YouTube films they start in the middle — 
BARTIROMO: “Right.”
KELLY: “— or two-thirds of their — into it, and obviously, they are not showing [crosstalk] the police well. So, I think the cameras are something that it is — its time has come.”
BARTIROMO: “Commissioner Kelly, thank you so much for joining us this morning.”
KELLY: “Thank you. Good to be here.”
BARTIROMO: “Appreciate your insights very much.”