The theory of police since Sir Robert Peel created the Met has been that the links between the police and the community they serve are the most important thing.

The theory of police since Sir Robert Peel created the Met has been that the links between the police and the community they serve are the most important thing. It is the connection between the force and the people that provides them with the information to prevent crime from happening, to identify them when they have happened, and to solve them once they have been committed. So these links and friendships should be the basis for the the philosophy of policing in the past centuries. And those could indeed be compromised by being recorded. Modern American policing doesn't work, and seems to this outsider to oftentimes be more based on a military occupation force than a police living inside their own community, but this is how it is supposed to work.