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No but, look how often some scum comes after an Officer, who is then shot. It used to be all to often that the Officer went hunting for the scum and the scum did nothing. How many times did family and friends all testify that the Officer just shot him for no reason? Then Body cam's came along and we get to see the scum point a gun at the Cop before the Cop drills him. This is what I mean. We used to see clips of several Cops on top of some guy. Then when the Police release the entire video we see the scum attacking the Cops leading up to him ending up playing lets taste the pavement,When speaking with family about taking a member into protective custody for psychological evaluation, I advised them that there was often no elegant way of accomplishing the task. They usually chose to sit in another room.
Point: Law enFORCEment is not a genteel, refined, elegant line of work. More and more, alarmingly more, it is brute force - which does not look good on camera and cameras do not and cannot register the officer's mindset or perception of threat. It is unrehearsed physical combat in 100% uncontrolled environments.
That does not film well.
I have had several run ins were the camera was GREAT. One a guys Pit came after my Wife's dog. He got it back, I told him "Ok, I will let this one go". Weeks later same dog comes after my dog. This time I told the guy, "ok, I gave you the first one, I will not keep letting this go". He jumps in a car with two buddies and drives after me. Pulls up next to me screaming that his dog has NEVER been a problem for me and that my parents were not married and probably were close relations. After he stopped for a breath I pointed at the camera on my shirt. Said "see this? Its a video camera. This was all on video. Last time your dog came after me and my Wife that was on video. So lets see what the judge says while you get to watch all this with him." He sped off in his car. If I had been forced to drill him or his buddies that would also have been on video. To me WELL worth the cost of having the camera that back then was fairly pricey. Now they are pennies on the dollar what they cost then.