Cameras needed for police: Your Say

I am a strong proponent of the use of cameras in police work. 

My oldest brother was on then Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley's security detail, including during the 1968 Democratic Convention, where he broke up a "scrum" involving many — including Dan Rather, then the on-the-floor reporter for Walter Cronkite and CBS. Thank goodness there was video available, as it clearly showed my brother was breaking up the melee, rather than contributing to the violence that erupted.

Jim Kudlinski; Overland Park, Kan.

Should justice system make exceptions for the poor?

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I've never broken federal law, never been to jail and only had to pay court fees once. Also, fees are not contingent on how one is to pay. If I had a large credit card bill, and lost my job the next day, I would still have to pay the bill. My loss of a job would not be the company's problem, but my own problem.

— John Spencer

Even a traffic ticket may be too much for a family living in poverty. Perhaps the justice system can lower the fines or let people make payments.

— Steve Porter

This is just an updated version of the Medieval debtors' prisons. If you are Republican, you can say this is just job creation, hiring more people to monitor, house, and feed the debtors being incarcerated. But it probably costs more to do that than if we just forgave the minor debts. Hardly an economical way to run a system.

— Roberta Rendozky