From what I am seeing on the web in every jurisdiction in which cop cams have been implemented the number of excessive force complaints and the raw number of police shootings have declined.
Also on the web is a marked increase in the number of cops responding violently and criminally to citizens who are exercising their First Amendment right to safely video record cops as they perform their public duties.
Which of course leads me to repeat that line the police are so fond of using:
“If you’re not doing anything wrong then you’ve got nothing to worry about.”
White Freepers reflexively springing to the defense of cops accused of racist misconduct reminds me strongly of our equally reflexively springing to the defense of Business.
In both cases, Leftists use possible misconduct to try to justify horribly misguided policies. We think the policies are bad, and we dislike Leftists in general, so we tend to defend the people and groups they attack.
The problem is that the attacked groups are not necessarily in the right. Business (with a capital B), for instance, has no attachment at all to conservative principles except when its convenient for them. Nor should it. The purpose of Business is to maximize profits, and that is quite often done most effectively thru crony capitalism.
Conservatives should be in favor of Markets, not Business.
Similarly, we should be in favor of constitutional policing, not the Police.