@eletrotupi @glitterwitch Unwarranted surveillance is generally abusive for the the reason pointed out by Snowden, but exceptionally police encounters are different b/c you already lose the freedom privacy gives when under direct police observation. In that case, the cameras protect you from police misconduct. In effect, the *cop* is less free, and rightly so.

@glitterwitch @eletrotupi consider the recent case where an Ohio cop turned off his camera before shooting dead a black man & not rendering aid. The fact that he turned it off is in itself incriminating, coupled with the bits of footage they still got. Had there been no camera at all, it would have been purely a cops word against a dead man's word. That cop would still be working instead of going to trial.

@eletrotupi @glitterwitch from the CNN link: "while the number of stops increased, the number of civilian complaints levied against officers decreased by 21%" "This study finds that the placement of BWCs (body-worn cameras) on officers can increase their compliance with department directives to document stops of citizens,"

@glitterwitch @eletrotupi "The NYPD was mandated in 2013 by Manhattan federal Judge Analisa Torres to start a pilot program for body-worn cameras as a way to fix the racial disparity" <= so the purpose was not to reduce violence, it was to promote racial equality, and the Stanford study supports that.

@eletrotupi @glitterwitch a BWC is a cheap way to improve quality control.