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It's high time to make the cops wear video cameras that are permanently turned on while on duty, and to make it a penalisable infraction for them to obstruct the camera without filling in reams of paperwork to justify it afterwards.

FTFY.

Or... Even better...

It's high time to hire better cops.



It doesn't even need to be enforced. Just give every single cop a reliable camera and make sure that it is well known that they have the things.

Then you can ask them why they don't use the evidence recording device that would remove ambiguity from so many situations.


"hire better cops" usually translates to "pay cops more".

SF and Oakland are already amongst the highest paying police departments and neither has almost any residents of their city working for them. I have met some of the police who are natives in both cities and it's a great way to get uninvited from Thanksgiving, and with good reason.




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