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Guess that's why so many of your ilk relieve citizens of their cameras.Police Chief: "People tend to behave a little bit better when they know they're on camera."
Right, because the average length of a citizen's Youtube video is three seconds and has never captured any "prior to" or context whatsoever."The thing of the past is the three second cell phone clip from--ya know--John Doe that put in and said this is what police officers did. Now, we'll show you three and half to four minutes of the contact prior to."
The pigs' effort is more an attempt to control what is spinning out of control for them. Some are looking ahead, knowing they will not be able to generally stop people from filming them. They are technologically lagging behind citizens who post Youtube videos, so they are playing catch-up.
They need to control the message. I'll predict that PR departments and other pro police people will start getting very active with Youtube. They will be the publishers of these Youtube videos, so they can control the content and the comments. Their own pro police comments will perpetually appear at the top of the video and will--amazingly--be voted as favorites. Cogent arguments by people critical of police action will be screened and never appear.
Last edited by NorthCarolinaLiberty; 07-27-2014 at 08:10 PM.
Originally Posted by TheCount
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Which will suffer mysterious mechanical or technical "failures" at the precise moment some poor bastard is getting the $#@! beat out of him.Police Brutality Claims Prompt Police Depts. To Use Body Cameras
Or being cut to ribbons by a couple hundred rounds of cop gunfire.
Or the family dog having his head blown off.
Or the baby getting a grenade tossed in his crib.
For sure. They'll also decline to release any video if they don't feel like it. Just like they do now.
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a little side note. I have a cousin who banned me from my family facebook private page for posting cop vs dog vids. In just one year after my banning, she now posts cop abuse stories with video with harsh words for cops in her comments.....i'm going to take credit for waking her up, but i have not been re-instated to the family page which bears my last name......
I don't see how this can be anything but good. It takes away the default position of the courts which is to always take the cop's word over the citizen. With these body cams, it prevents cops from lying about what was captured.
Aside from the confrontations with the public, I'd be especially interested in recording their conversations with each other. Of course, you know those things would never be recorded!
"And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works." - Bastiat
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire
Some people are competitions over the dumbest stuff.
Like in this case> http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...hen-shoots-him
The officer's dashcam starts A MINUTE after he already shot Carlos Harris Dead....Those pesky dashcams....just turn on and off at the strangest times.
"When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will." Frederic Bastiat
Peace.
True. The police cam will be selectively used for pro police propaganda. Other videos will never see the light of day.
"When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will." Frederic Bastiat
Peace.
I have also found that this issue has changed my (neo-con) dad's views. My cop postings got him into Randy Balko, and it all went from there.
The more prohibitions you have,
the less virtuous people will be.
The more weapons you have,
the less secure people will be.
The more subsidies you have,
the less self-reliant people will be.
Therefore the Master says:
I let go of the law,
and people become honest.
I let go of economics,
and people become prosperous.
I let go of religion,
and people become serene.
I let go of all desire for the common good,
and the good becomes common as grass.
-Tao Te Ching, Section 57
It might help. At least until the rash of mysterious unexplained camera malfunctions start to show up.
This is very much a positive development.
I know people are saying the cops want to use it for situations when providing the added context exonerates their officers. But you know what? That's fine. If context validates an officer's actions, then good. We want to protect ALL the innocent -- including innocent cops. In the process of protecting their own, they're going to end up collecting lots of video evidence that will exonerate innocent citizens, just like what happens right now with the squad car dashcam cameras.
But I agree there will still be "malfunctions" and resistance to releasing evidence, just like we have currently with dashcam videos.
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