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Ars Technica brings us an update to an earlier story in which a court case was thrown out when a police officer's body cam showed him planting drugs before 'finding' them immediately after. Now prosecutors in Maryland are reviewing other body-cam footage and have already thrown out 34 criminal cases with many more under review:
The Baltimore Police Department's body cams, like many across the nation, capture footage 30 seconds before an officer presses the record button. The footage was turned over to defense attorneys as part of a drug prosecution - and that's when the misdeed was uncovered.
[...] "We are dismissing those cases which relied exclusively on the credibility of these officers," Mosby told a news conference Friday. She said the dismissed cases, some of which have already been prosecuted, involved weapons and drugs.
Lesson learned cops - plant drugs, wait 30 seconds, then turn on the camera!
(Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday August 01 2017, @09:21AM
I am thinking more down the line that a thinking person will be far more susceptible to insubordination should he feel his boss is in error.
Stanley Milgram brought this up in his Yale study titled "Obedience to Authority".
Remember the engineer that refused to obey the orders to electrocute the guy in the chair? He knew what the voltages claimed would do, and refused to obey. Business types don't want someone like that on their team. They need people who value the paycheck more than anything else. Order-takers that obey unconditionally.
They don't want them thinking or considering the ramifications of what they are doing. "Yes Sir!" is the expected response.
The stress I personally get when my moral compass is at odds with my orders has led to a lot of crap in my life.
I am at the point I feel a thinking moral person has no business being employed. Once they reach the awareness of morality, I believe its almost imperative they become self-employed, as morality will foment insubordination if the order-giver is not of like mindset.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]