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A lot of police work takes place in public areas, where there is no expectation of privacy and anyone is able to take pictures and video. There doesn't seem to
by marze 11y ago
A lot of police work takes place in public areas, where there is no expectation of privacy and anyone is able to take pictures and video.
There doesn't seem to be any reason not to make all footage from public areas generally available.
- sdrothrock 11y agoWhat if you were being raped in a park and policemen came to assist you. Would you want that footage to be publicly available? Likewise, would you want everyone who ever hated you to have access to that footage to use however they want? Once the cat's out of the bag... Edit: Other fun situations: 1. You're attacked by someone and can't run, but have enough experience/training to subdue them; the cops show up later and the video doesn't show you being attacked, so you look like the aggressor. 2. You're attacked and can't defend yourself or fail to such an extent that people would look at the video and laugh at you. 3. You're on video doing something incredibly out of the norm for you, whatever the reason. 4. You're on video in a PLACE that you wish other people didn't know you frequented. A strip club, a gay bar, a church, a vegan grocery store, a pot dealer, etc. 5. You're on video doing something that your friends/family would react negatively to. Let's say you're a doctor and someone has a heart attack at Political Rally Green. You're up front and on camera for everyone else to see, including your family, who are all diehard Red supporters.
- spacemanmatt 11y agoAll those things are better than being attacked by police, framed by police, and having nothing to show for it.
- sdrothrock 11y agoI'm not trying to argue that they're not; I'm just saying why people could support police body cams and disagree with all video recorded being public.
- Frondo 11y agoSo that video evidence of the hypothetical rape could be sealed by the court. Problem solved. As for the rest (people would laugh at you if they saw the video?), that's pretty weak stuff.
- sdrothrock 11y ago> So that video evidence of the hypothetical rape could be sealed by the court. Problem solved. Personally, I think the DEFAULT should be "sealed" and then video for times X to Y should be unsealed as necessary for cases. > As for the rest (people would laugh at you if they saw the video?), that's pretty weak stuff. I think that depends on who you are. Some people take being the object of popular ridicule better than others.
- brc 11y agoAll of those scenarios can happen with ubitiquos CCTV, and whether or not it is released is entirely up to the owner of the camera.
- notahacker 11y agoUbiquitous CCTV would be a lot more unpopular if people looking to build general purpose people-tracking databases, create hit-lists of visitors to abortion clinics, gay bars or synagogues or make thrilling real-life-rape compilation videos found it easy to persuade owners of the footage to share it with them though. CCTV would also be even more unpopular if it came with sound and instead of recording largely uninteresting ongoings in public spaces, it was used to record intrusions into other people's houses at particularly stressful times and record their stuttering non-answers to very intimate questions and accusations they're often ultimately proved to be entirely innocent of.