We’ll just disagree about what cameras accomplish.
We’re suppose to be a free people. We should serve and protect ourselves without the interference of government workers.
We vote for representatives to pass the laws we wish to live by and we hire cops to enforce those laws. Those cops must be of good character because they have desecration and power. But, they also must be tough, bossy and scary.
“Protectors” do their work for honor and all those other masculine reasons that make someone come to your aid when you call them. Any burdens that we can remove from their shoulders helps them do a good job and it is a kind thing to do for men who take risks in their jobs.
We should try to attract to the job, those protector types and skip the authoritarian wannabes.
We should also show them some mercy when they make a mistake.
The trouble is, absent a specification of a duty to protect by statute, thanks to a recent SCOTUS decision, the only duty of police is to enforce the law. The profession now attracts folks who like enforcing, period, not protector types, almost by definition authoritarians.