I apologize if the terseness came off as aggression.
And likewise.
I apologize if the terseness came off as aggression.
Classic wrote:Thad wrote:A police officer engaging with a civilian doesn't have a right to privacy. Just this once, "the innocent have nothing to hide" is a reasonable argument to make.
Except you don't have to make it.
Classic wrote:Police are public servants and privacy or anonymity has made police demonstrably worse at discharging the duties of their office.
Public servants, while performing their functions as public servants, need to justify the necessity or usefulness of privacy. They don't get it as a de facto right.
Esperath wrote:The problem is that this is how the telephone effect starts. One person summarizes an article with a link, and then 95% of people don't actually read through the whole article. "11 out of 160000" starts getting blindly passed around and is quickly divorced from the original source.
Thad wrote:You want to publicly and vocally criticize a government agency you're working for? That's your right and, in many cases, the government doesn't have the legal right to punish you for it.
Thad wrote:There are rather a lot of government employees whose jobs I don't think really rise to the level of "should be monitored by camera at all times".
St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote:Two men indicted last week on federal weapons charges allegedly had plans to bomb the Gateway Arch — and to kill St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch and Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson — the Post-Dispatch has learned.
Sources close to the investigation were uncertain whether the men had the capability to carry out the plans, although the two allegedly did buy what they thought was a pipe bomb in an undercover law enforcement sting.
The men wanted to acquire two more bombs, the sources said, but could not afford to do it until one suspect’s girlfriend’s Electronic Benefit Transfer card was replenished.
An indictment, with no mention of bombs or killings, was returned in federal court here Nov. 19 and unsealed Friday upon the arrest of Brandon Orlando Baldwin and Olajuwon Ali Davis. Their addresses and Baldwin’s age were not available; Davis is 22.
The arrest came three days before McCulloch revealed that a grand jury would not indict Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson in the controversial killing of Michael Brown. The announcement triggered looting and multiple arsons in Ferguson.
Mongrel wrote:It seems sort of absurd that we're reaching a point where I've heard people object to mandatory body cameras for police on the basis of "Well, cameras won't do anything because they'll just disregard the video in court like they do now."
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