If your job was to shovel shit, carve up corpses, or deliver news of death to loved ones would you want your every moment on the job filmed and put on youtube?
Even when cops are acting reasonably and justly, most of what we pay them to do is ugly and unpleasant. Like 99.9% of the people on the planet, cops don't want to filmed every second they are on the job. What evil sinister monsters they must be.
First, its not surprising to see you defending the American militarized police state be it with their domestic or foreign affairs.
Really, because my whole life, I have opposed most of what the US military has done, and despite having 2 brothers in the Army get nauseous at rhetoric about soldiers and cops being heroes. I oppose all criminalization of drug use and sales, and generally think that most cops (including my brother) are authoritarian fuckwads of the sort that were the bullies as kids.
I just don't share you infantile reactionary worldview that paints cops as evil hollywood villains and denies basic realities of the need for cops and the realities of that job. I recognize that ultimately they are human beings and thus I don't invent sinister motives when just being a normal human being explains their behavior.
But to address your point Hyladae brought up the fact that in jurisdictions where cameras have been introduced complaints of police brutality have dropped. So I'll trust reality over your opinion.
That "reality" in no way conflicts with my opinion. My opinion, which is merely that cops like most humans don't want every second of their day filmed and viewed by the world for the purpose of picking apart flaws with every action they take, especially when the nature of the job requires doing unpleasant things in unpleasant situations with unpleasant people.
Second, many people have jobs where they are recorded every moment and they cope just fine.
It isn't a matter of "coping". It is a matter of whether people want to have their every word and action recorded for the purpose of ridiculing them, not for the purpose of their own safety as is the case with things like cameras at banks (which btw, don't record sound or any of the kind of behavioral detail of each employee that you are proposing for cops). The question is merely "why don't the cops want it?", and the clear answer is "For the same reasons almost no one else would want it."
Virtually every public business has security cameras now. If you can find cases where unions have fought to have cameras removed from the workplace say for instance UPS warehouse workers then I'll buy your claim that 99.9% of people don't want their workplace recorded.
So, if your boss put a camera on your desk in on your shirt in order to monitor your every move while on the clock, not to protect you but to control you, you would have no problem with that? Sorry, but your either lying or if not are clearly abnormal and unlike most human beings.
And most of what we pay police to do isn't ugly and unpleasant so spare us the appeals to police victim-hood.
Most of their workday is driving around in the car or sitting in the car waiting to give people tickets.
We don't pay them to wait for crime. We pay them to seek out and stop criminal activity. They spend time waiting and watching because fortunate for all of us, there is not visible acts of crime happening every moment in the eyesight of every cop. Besides, while waiting for crimes cops are having private conversations with each other, talking to themselves, etc.. It is really hard to imagine that they don't want every second of that recorded and accessible to the public?
When cops are enforcing the law inherently means conflicts with people, and usually rather unpleasant people and their victims who are distraught and upset. A huge % of the calls cops investigate are domestic violence and/or drunken disturbances. They deal with the taint of humanity. Even most non-criminal calls, like traffic accidents means dealing with dangerous, stressful, and often sad situations where no one is going to come off as being at their most appealing, especially to detached and unempathic judgers like yourself.
Everything about those situations is unpleasant and that you cannot recognize that shows extreme lack of empathy that explains your irrational villanizing of their every move. I am not claiming they are "victims". They choose the job. I am just recognizing the reality of the job that society asks and pays them to do, and that even if only just and sensible laws existed, theirs would be an ugly job whose day to day details they wouldn't want immortalized and publicly broadcast.
Even then, apparently witnesses are only credible sometimes but not others - as evidenced by the way Dorian Johnson is put forth as a witness when it suits but vilified as a thug when what he says happened doesn't fit the conservative narrative.
LOL no.
