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Re:Phone conversations with law enforcement can be recorded ... by jhardy54 on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @11:08AM (#40052954)
> For instance, just about every single person who resists arrest now also yells that they cannot breath. Then the cops ask if they need medical, which of course they say yes, simply to make things more difficult for the police (and waste taxpayer money to have an ambulance come out).

I don’t have any trouble believing that your social media feeds have rage bait videos that follow this pattern, but I’d remind you that the videos recommended to you are unlikely to be representative of reality.

Some feeds support narratives like “criminals lie and waste resources” whereas others show “cops lie and hurt people”, and what you see is strongly correlated with what will catch (and maintain) your attention.

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Re:Phone conversations with law enforcement can be recorded ... by Workaccount2 on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @11:17AM (#40053088)
The body cam channels aren't really trying to push a narrative. They just take public body cam footage from a handful of locales and upload it with very little production work. It's almost no work and generates (comparatively) a lot of views. The majority of it is pretty mundane, lots of drunk people.

I wouldn't compare it to agenda channels that upload heavily edited and cherry picked content with "telling you how to feel" narration. The unedited average police doing average police work content is enough to stand on its own.

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Re:Phone conversations with law enforcement can be recorded ... by jamiek88 on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @01:05PM (#40054494)
No, no MY bubble is reality.
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Re:Phone conversations with law enforcement can be recorded ... by Workaccount2 on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @05:32PM (#40057467)
The thrust of the videos is not political in any way. The channels host videos of bad cops just as eagerly as any other channel. They just want views from content that they don't have to produce themselves.

The fact of the matter is though that for every bad cop interaction, there are about 10,000 normal ones.

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