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elizabeth  ·  3632 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This App Constantly Records Everything Your Phone Sees and Hears

Edit: somehow, the link starts at the begining of the video even if I changed the URL to skip the part irrelevant to the discussion... skip to 3:50

I agree with Dan Brown on this. Of course the officer should have been arrested but the problem does not lie with the camera but the whole system. And at the very least the fact that it was filmed shone a light on this (because now law enforcement can't just say that they got information that the public doesn't like they did in previous cases) and this will (hopefully) lead to more reforms to make the system better.

Just because the camera footage didn't help in this case, doesn't mean we should reject cameras as part of the solution.