I believe that we need fewer laws in general, including the one passed just a few weeks ago that bans texting while driving. I'm not a fan of it: It's impossible to enforce, and frankly, we have plenty of laws already on the books that take care of reckless driving. However, there is one law I would like to see: I'd like a law requiring video cameras in every single police car.

Many traffic officers think videos wreck their cases.  The truth is that what an officer writes in his report is not necessarily what's captured on the video.  With DUIs, it's very difficult to see whether a driver's eyes are bloodshot, and we certainly can't smell the odor of alcohol.  But we can see someone who's unsteady on their feet, and hear when slurred speech.  If a report is exaggerated, it's exaggerated and that's that. When I know a video exists of my client's arrest, I go over it in detail. Occasionally, I find that an officer has exaggerated, but I have yet to find anything as ridiculous as what happened last week in Texas.

Police cameras are useful in more than just DUI stops. For instance, many officers have been cleared of false accusations just by making sure that their video runs when there's a female arrestee in their car. In one case, video was crucial to the outcome of an incident years ago where a Texas trooper was killed on a traffic stop; no one would have ever been prosecuted for his murder if it were not for the video that captured the entire thing.

Many other states require cameras in every police vehicle; it wouldn't be all that exceptional for Georgia to require this as well. It doesn't even have to be a law!