There have been many efforts in the past to coordinate the Copwatch chapters throughout the United States. As of today, none of those efforts have been successful.
Orange County Copwatch feels that the Neighborhood Watch organizations in our communities should extend their services to include the services of Copwatch.
As common as video recorders are these days, be it a cell phone or a camcorder it would be easy to incorporate these two organizations.
The most difficult part of acheiving this goal is to overcome the mentality that "Police officers are all law abiding."
All too often when people see the police in their comminity interacting with citizens, they look away. "I don't want to get involved."
Most police officers are law abiding, but there are many who are not.
When a citizen's rights are violated by a police officer, unless there is video evidence (and even sometimes when there is), the citizen has nothing but their own word against the word of the police officer.
Talk to your neighborhood watch organization and pass this information on.
Grab a video camera and get involved.
You have a consititutional right to observe uniformed police officers while they are on duty. This may not always be the case.
Police oversight is shrouded in secrecy, and there is no recourse for police misconduct for those of us citizens who don't have the time and money to assert our rights.

Welcome to ThumperWatch, occopwatch, and thank you for participating.

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