May 2, 2015

"Study shows that with police body cameras 'everyone behaves better.'"

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Posted by Ann Althouse at 7:54 AM
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7 comments:

Wilbur said...

When the teacher's in the room, there's not much cutting up.

5/2/15, 8:30 AM
Michael said...

As a writer for the WSJ noted, it would be great to have constant streaming of all police cameras at all times.

Then we would know who needs some straightening out.

5/2/15, 8:38 AM
Hagar said...

Gadgets are not going to make the problems go away; you need to actually do something.

5/2/15, 8:43 AM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...

We wouldn't need police body cameras if everyone went to church on Sunday.

5/2/15, 9:13 AM
Ann Althouse said...

When people believed that God watched them everywhere, we didn't need cameras everywhere.

When cameras are everywhere and people, not God, are watching everything everywhere, all they will see in the video is people watching video everywhere. No wonder God got bored and stopped watching us.

5/2/15, 10:19 AM
YoungHegelian said...

Here's my great, cosmic prediction: the Left will ultimately turn against police body cameras because it will provide a continuous stream of video data showing just how dysfunctional the minority underclasses are.

Web sites will spring up to stream the "classics", and the sites will be denounced as racist by folks such as Ta-Nehisi Coates for broadcasting the reality that cops have to deal with on a day to day basis.

Is the white underclass as bad? Yes, it is. But, there's no ideology in the US today that feels the need to romanticize the white lumpenproletariat, so they're already foddr for shows such as Cops. The Left, however, has a deep ideological need to romanticize these people as poor, oppressed victims of The Man. When the reality of their lives is brought all to close to home, the romance can end rather abruptly.

5/2/15, 11:58 AM
PoNyman said...

87.5% less use of force. That is amazing. The article mentions that the can tell people that they are being recorded, but was it required to say that they were recording?
This is my bias speaking, but it seems to me that a citizen wanting to get in an altercation with police would not be cowed by a camera. So how much of this is a change in police behavior. And I assume that there weren't any additional policing "classes" they had to take.

5/2/15, 3:27 PM

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