> What do these two things have to do with each other? They are both emergency responses and require tremendous amount of material and human resources to get t

> What do these two things have to do with each other? They are both emergency responses and require tremendous amount of material and human resources to get there very fast. Police have the fastest cars with the brightest lights that let them go wherever they want the fastest (Bonus if they have a motorcycle, but those they keep to give speeding tickets for some reason). It also means they are the first ones there and might need to do CPR from time to time or help that guy about to jump down the bridge. >Why has our society conflated those? We are imperfect humans in an imperfect world. We can't assign every single task to a different human being. We, as a society, accept that. >The fact that we're talking seriously about affording public policing a sphere of secrecy is just a symptom of that problem. There is a big difference between secrecy of the police and privacy of the policed. Go watch Live PD and come tell me seriously they should stop censoring the names, date of birth, addresses, plate numbers, SSN, wardrobe malfunctions of the victims, witnesses and children that appear in the show. They take the time to protect the privacy of the bystanders, but it costs money and an incredible amount of resource to do so just for a couple of teams for a couple of hours a week and they don't even do a perfect job.