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The head of the FBI believes that a spike in violent crime in many cities may be due to officers' fears of showing up on Internet videos confronting suspects.
FBI Director James Comey told reporters Wednesday that a "viral video effect" is leading to less aggressive policing that "could well be at the heart" of an alarming increase in murders in many cities, according to an account recorded by the New York Times.
"There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime -- the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'Hey, what are you doing here?'" he told reporters.
Comey's remarks came after he was briefed on rising crime rates in more than 40 cities during the first quarter of 2016. The director did not reveal specific statistics, and the FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
James Comey, welcome to the panopticon you dragged the rest of us into. It's rather a double-edged sword, isn't it?
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday May 14 2016, @01:56PM
No, I stand by the comment. Here, LEO means Low Earth Orbit. Calling a cop an LEO says something about the poster, like maybe he IS one, and he's certainly not a nerd. Maybe a marketer but certainly has no interest in science or technology.
I have a bias against acronyms anyway. When there's a three letter WORD that is synonymous with your acronym and the acronym has more than one use, using the acronym is brain-dead STUPID. FBI? That's okay, the full thing is unwieldy, but LEO for "cop" is dumb, dumb, dumb.
NO CONTEXT IS NEEDED IF YOU KNOW THE LANGUAGE. And if you're using the coefficient of performance acronym, use upper case.
Donald Trump is a mixture of Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover, multiplied by ten.