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by kemonocode 1807 days ago
> In some ways, the whole debate could be more civil if officers faces and voices were blurred.

Police have no expectation of privacy when performing their official duties, at least in the US, so that should be a non-issue. If they don't want to bring consequences unto themselves for what they're doing, then perhaps they should stop doing such things or think really hard about their chosen career path.

> After all, it's not really the individual officer who is at fault: it's the system that trained the officer, and the department policies that require officers to apply unreasonable force.

At some point you can't just blame "the system" and there needs to be individual accountability. Mayhaps if they like the lack of it and with less bodily risk, they could pursue politics instead.

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> Police have no expectation of privacy when performing their official duties...

True, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we have to escalate to the point of publicly shaming officers. Or at-least maybe we don't always need to, sometimes it's definitely called for.

> At some point you can't just blame "the system" and there needs to be individual accountability.

I don't think any actions by any individual police officer is likely to scale far.