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Originally Posted by skarra
PLUS body cams.
If that makes the police think twice about what they are doing, that is a good thing.
Video footage is as good as, if not better than, a witness. Not that a witness is a perfect form of evidence as it has been proven to be unreliable in many cases. (memory, interpretation, etc)
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Reality-"the police think twice about what they are doing, that is a good thing."
We have all the time in the world sitting safely in front of our computer. It is far different making decisions in part of a second with Adrenalin pumping.
In am not a cop. I have worked in neighborhoods where most people say I don't go there.
I have seen cops in action. I have seen cops decide it is not worth the paperwork to catch this guy. He will be out before the ink drys and my superior will question why I bothered to catch this guy. The criminals also know this.
The opposite is a police state. Public caning a kid for stealing a political poster.
The question is what do we want. Where is the proper balance? That question has not to date ever been answered. Perhaps, there is no answer that we can all agree on.
Law, unless we accept an all powerful dictator, and even then is not and cannot be perfect.