Videos Are Making It Hard To Trust the Cops

[Democide]

Videos Are Making It Hard To Trust the Cops2

10 November 2021

There's a lot to dislike about the increasingly pervasive surveillance state, but a little of its danger is offset when the forces of officialdom are themselves captured by the all-seeing eye. All too often, official versions of events turn out to be completely at odds with video and audio records of what actually happened. Given stark discrepancies between some police reports about searches and arrests and video footage of the same events, it's difficult to avoid the suspicion that the powers-that-be habitually lie about their conduct. In New York, David Yezek is suing police in a case that explains just ...

Videos Are Making It Hard To Trust the Cops

There's a lot to dislike about the increasingly pervasive surveillance state, but a little of its danger is offset when...

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