About citizen videos of violent cops

[Stinky The Clown]

The cop world had better come to grips with the fact that people are watching and people are able to document your bad actions.

One thing that might come of this is that good cops will take it upon themselves to purge their ranks of bad cops. Marginal cops may decide to shape up or ship out.

I am really glad more and more videos are being made.

Keep it up and do it more.

[99th_Monkey]

1. Yep, keep it up, and stay safe too.

IMHO Cops who go online or on TV to announce they are unwilling to do their fucking jobs,
should be fired immediately, and bring on new hires who are welcome community engagement
and cell-phone scrutiny, and who are willing to DO what they are hired to do: protect & serve.

[bvar22]

5. A 50% raise along with eliminating the bad cops...

...and thorough screening of new hires would do some good.
Adding an increase in salary for completed college classes in Public Relations, Non-violence, and Community Relations would be worth adding to the salary.

If we want good cops, we will have to pay them.

[Mariana]

2. One of the important things coming to light

is how few good cops there really are. In most of these videos in which there is more than one cop on the scene, all of them are actively participating in the abuse. In the rest, the others are standing by, doing nothing. Good cops would intervene and protect the victims, but very rarely do we see this happen.

[hunter]

3. Yep.

[virgogal]

4. It would be nice if this was balanced

by videos of police going the extra mile for a citizen.


I doubt that you'll see many of those,though.---not newsworthy enough.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. I disagree

I see news accounts of "good guy" cops with some frequency, albeit not nearly as much as we hear about bad cops.

But as you say, good news doesn't get reported very much. And, in today's climate, if a news organization reported "happy cop news", they'd be skewered.

[LanternWaste]

7. balance for its own sake is a bias in and of itself...

I see quite a few video accounts of police celebrated when they engage in kindness... viral episodes of a cop purchasing eggs for a shoplifter, rescuing ducks from drainage culverts, etc. I think I see them because I hold no real contempt nor respect for law enforcement collectively, and not as much bias is preventing me from seeing both the good and bad.

However, balance for its own sake is a bias in and of itself. Unless one can illustrate that good cops and bad cops exist in equal numbers, balance as such, is irrelevant. Two of one and seven of the other do not hold the same weight; and hence, balance between the two may only be achieved by over-estimating or de-emphasizing one or the other.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. Here Here!

Balance is what gets us a media that always shows a bad dem when the story is about a bad rep. Or vice versa.

They don't all do it and they aren't all the same.

[FoxNewsSucks]

8. It's more likely they'll just find a way to ban cameras, or

use something similar to this:

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/06/apple-working-on-a-sophisticated-infrared-system-for-ios-cameras.html

to disable any smartphone camera pointed in their direction.