re: Police Absurdities

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Cameras were probably the #2 factor. That one in NY when 2 cops hit a parked car then blamed it on the guy that was sitting in it at the time and arrested him was eye opening. He claimed one of them even said "sorry man, but I'm not losing pay over this". Had it not been captured by an external camera, I think it was somebody's porch cam, the guy would have been screwed.

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For me, the tipping point was an accumulation.

Because sure, MANY things the press cried about turned out be race baiting bull shite.

However, I noticed something that couldn't be ignored.

There were still at least a solid handful of cases where the initial story the cops told just turned out to be flagrant bull shite and initially, there was no public camera footage. And in 100%, not 99%, 100% of the cases, it was NEVER the other cops on scene that spilled the beans. Or even the leadership who may have had body cam footage.

In those cases where video came out LATER and the cops turned out to have been lying, it 100% of the time took the video. Not other cops. Not the leadership. The video.

I once said, "ya know what would be nice? It would be nice if JUST ONCE, the way I found out about police misconduct on scene was from other police officers".