Originally Posted by
PaulKarl
Left unchecked, law enforcement will tend toward these types of abuses. That's why law enforcement needs to be zealously monitored by the citizenry in the form of civilian review boards, well-paid public defenders and everyday citizens standing up for their rights and refusing to allow peace officers to overstep their bounds.
Also the surveillance needs to be evened out. Cops love having those cameras on their cars but if you try and tape a cop doing their job (or abusing their job) they tend to freak out. Think how much hassle we would save if the surveillance of police officers was standardize and held in the hands of said review board. Then we could be fairly sure that such evidence wouldn't disappear when going against the cop, for example.