A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations

Re:A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations by JamesBarney on Friday October 20, 2017 @04:45PM (#15518999)

An enormous amount of evil that has occurred in this world has involved peer pressure. And all evil has extenuating circumstances. I understand that to prevent evil we should understand the reasoning behind why people do bad things. But this doesn't make the people or acts less evil.

Peer pressure or not, protesting accountability for your group after a member committed manslaughter is a bad act.

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Re:A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations by Clubber on Friday October 20, 2017 @06:15PM (#15519476)

>Peer pressure or not, protesting accountability for your group after a member committed manslaughter is a bad act.

I believe they were protesting the generalizations he insinuated about the entire police department. I found it distasteful, but the good cops had a reason to be pissed.

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Re:A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations by mistermann on Saturday October 21, 2017 @10:50AM (#15522004)

I don't know about everyone else, but until they start to step up and turn in the bad apples, I will personally continue to make generalizations. These people are police officers, it's their job to uphold the law.

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Re:A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations by Clubber on Sunday October 22, 2017 @10:14AM (#15526912)

Giving the benefit of the doubt, good cops could have turned in serious offenders, but we would never know about it because we only get our information from the news. I assume the PD would keep it internal.

Granted, that is an optimistic view.

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Re:A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations by eric_h on Sunday October 22, 2017 @07:31AM (#15526264)

I suppose it wasn't entirely clear as I didn't state it explicitly, but my point really was that a few bad apples spoils the bunch.

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