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A Baltimore cop, identified as Richard Pinheiro, was recorded on video planting drugs then "finding" them moments later - in front of two other unnamed cops. The video was made possible due to Pinheiro's body camera being designed to keep the 30 seconds of video prior to it being "switched on".
Charges against the civilian suspect have been dropped; no word yet on any criminal charges against any of the three cops.
Also at Ars Technica, The Baltimore Sun, USA Today and vox.com.
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Body Cam Records Baltimore Cop Planting Drugs While Two Others Watch
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Friday July 21 2017, @08:12AM (2 children)
I strongly agree with you on this, jmorris. These cops have to be prosecuted with the same professional zeal applied to any other accused. If they are not, if they're allowed to skate, it destroys the trust, also called the "social contract" in academic circles, that is essential for a society, any society, to function. Why don't i break out the minigun and hose down the cop car that flashes his lights behind me? Because i have been led to believe by that web of trust that the cop is not out to murder me and that i can pull over without fear for my life. If i no longer have that expectation, and there's a real threat there, i will do differently and so would everyone else.
You're also right about what's at stake with matters like these. Societies that fail to correctly and equitably apply laws to all quickly descend to malthusian hell-holes. i believe that's what we're witnessing now in general, but that's another well-known and sometimes despairingly threadbare meta-discussion.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday July 21 2017, @09:55AM
The general widespread corruption and permission for corporations to raid the population is likely to bring it all down.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 21 2017, @02:16PM
"i will do differently and so would everyone else."
Many of us, but not everyone else. We all know preachers and others who have an unfailing faith in their fellow man. That group is far outnumbered by those who are afraid to act in their own defense. In addition, there are the sycophants, who will suck up to authority figures. Those who would defend themselves may not even be a majority. I figure we are only a large minority. And, possibly not even a large one, at that.
What are the statistics on activists supporting freedom of the internet? Most people just accept that corporations should run the internet however the hell they want to run it.