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Nuclear Unicorn

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8. We have cameras in stores, parking lots, street intersections, etc.

Reply to truedelphi (Reply #7)

Tue Dec 30, 2014, 07:07 PM

Dec 2014

Ostensibly to let the populace know that any untoward acts will be captured and the evidence therein used against them. That TPTB decline to live under the same expectations they assert over the rest of us, I think, speaks volumes. In legal terms, taking actions to prevent leaving evidence of one's misdeeds is called "consciousness of guilt."

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Newsweek: Study Finds Body Cameras Decrease Police�s Use of Force [View all] Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2014 OP

If and when they use them, that is shanti Dec 2014 #1

according to the report last night on NBC, what you say seems to be true. truedelphi Dec 2014 #2

The problem, then, is allowing the officers to use "discretion." Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2014 #4

i agree with you. truedelphi Dec 2014 #7

We have cameras in stores, parking lots, street intersections, etc. Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2014 #8

The headline is far more evocative and optimistic that the article itself. branford Dec 2014 #3

"I not sure by what you mean you state, 'They exit...'" Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2014 #5

I have a friend who introduced a bill for cop cameras in Texas Gothmog Dec 2014 #6

It's interesting that complaints against the police dropped by so much more mythology Dec 2014 #9