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Recording police only 'backs them into a corner' if they're doing something wrong in the first place.
by crooked-v 6y ago
Recording police only 'backs them into a corner' if they're doing something wrong in the first place.
- junon 6y agoAnd privacy only matters if you have something to hide, right?
- croon 6y agoDo you expect the same privacy at work as you do at home?
- junon 6y agoYou missed the point.
- tokai 6y agoPolice work is a public matter. They have no right for privacy in the execution of their job.
- accounted 6y agoBut you dont have a right to everyone else's business. Police frequently deal with people in their worst, and yet some feel so entitled to seeing these situations they have nothing to do with as though it were just a drama on Netflix. Example: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=281471 https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=28147... The mother of the affected was telling people to go away, but they were so desperate to push their own agenda they ignored it. The BWC videos are on YouTube.
- mschuster91 6y agoI agree that this is a problem, and it could be solved by a legal requirement - spreading of the material is illegal if it is done for degrading the subject of police action, and "traffickers" (i.e. "laugh of the day" video aggregators) are held liable for redistributing such content.
- KSteffensen 6y agoNot arguing against holding public law enformcement accountable, but in a society where everyone sues everyone at the drop of a hat it's very easy to do something reasonable in the context that nevertheless opens you up for potentially expensive legal consequences. I can understand why people get jumpy when they are being filmed, even if they aren't doing anything obviously wrong.