Bodycam bullshyt. Imagine that. The media companies do it too – hurts revenue. Next time somebody warns you they’re doing something for ur own good just reply, no thanks, I’m feelin’ lucky.
Undoubtedly a step in the right direction. But the police body-cam song remains the same. Video is not all that far removed from audio and written accounts, mishandled, misrepresented, manipulated, and disregarded by the crooked cops’ secret society since forever.
I’m a big police supporter, always have been. They might have the biggest discrepancy in job risk-to-pay out there. The numbers don’t really make it an issue. There’s plenty of jobs more dangerous. But you can’t overlook the random chance of gunplay and high-intensity disaster-type stuff.
And the innate desire to protect one’s own certainly comes into play. It’s a huge, undeniable not necessarily malicious factor. Privacy? Meh. Chances are it happened in public most of the time anyway, if it’s on cop bodycam footage. In any case, sometimes it’s just another detail in the cover-up process.