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Look how well it worked for cops! I'm not suggesting we get rid of their bodycams, but it's easily gamed. It's one thing to be rich and enjoy the luxuries affo
by pstuart 4mo ago
Look how well it worked for cops! I'm not suggesting we get rid of their bodycams, but it's easily gamed.
It's one thing to be rich and enjoy the luxuries afforded by that, but to buy dominance over the very lives of others is when the angry mob retaliation is entirely justifiable.
- strangattractor 4mo agoIn what way did it work well for cops? From what I've seen it goes both ways with bodycam footage. The cops often have to put up with seriously dangerous stupid people and cops on power trips are video'd abusing people. Not that I am defending Ellison. Sadly the rich will always be able to buy their way out of most any bad situation except screwing over richer people.
- pstuart 4mo agoBy "worked well" I mean for citizens -- there's been multiple cases where cops lied and their bodycam exposed the lie.
- gobdovan 4mo agoExactly, cops can impose force on you and their jobs requires them to do it. If they wouldn't have body cams, it would be hard to see if coercion was justified or not. Surveilling powerless folks works in the other direction. It only serves to make them easier to discipline and teaches them that deviations from approved behaviour will be deterministically punished. And I also don't believe anyone is currently paid to act on their best behaviour as a simple citizen. Although this kind of monitoring works quite well for children under 6, you don't want paternalistic institutions, since you will never outgrow them.
- downrightmike 4mo agoThey turn them off all the time or the footage gets deleted
- pstuart 4mo agoUnderstood. But sometimes they forget, and those times have been shown to be valuable to get justice for the citizens they are engaged with.
- downrightmike 4mo agoyeah, I have no doubt they will digitally scrub cops out of the mass surveillance cameras