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by Fnoord 1707 days ago
'Their own gain', the police work for the public interest. If that isn't the case, something is wrong with your police force.

I get such point is popular with people who are cynical to authorities, and I get that in the context of racism in USA.

Here in The Netherlands they are always recording, and when the cop pushes it on, it saves the last minute before the cop pushed the button as well, for context.

The police are not allowed to tamper with evidence in a court of law. Nowhere in the world is this allowed.
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joshstrange 1707 days ago
> 'Their own gain', the police work for the public interest. If that isn't the case, something is wrong with your police force.

I agree. Something is very wrong with our police force. Also, it might not be allowed anywhere in the world but it absolutely happens in most of not all places (police getting away with tampering with evidence).

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Fnoord 1707 days ago
If we cannot keep people who are supposed to protect us accountable (even via a trusted third party like internal affairs [1]) we as society have a problem. And we do have a problem: a problem of trust, at the very least.

I'd like to think they do get caught, and I'd also like to think most cops in society can be trusted. There's dirty (and I use that word liberally) cops everywhere in the world, yes, also in The Netherlands, but the rotten apples are in a minority.

Mind you, my original quote was: "Police wont't generally use something like this as it would interfere with bodycam which includes a microphone." I said generally; I was already aware -in a world-wide context- some dirty cops might do such, or that I could think of exceptional situations where such might be warranted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_affairs_(law_enforcem...

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thatguy0900 1707 days ago
the fundamental problem is that the majority of good cops dont rat out the minority of bad cops, either out of a sense of brotherhood or because theyll will face retaliation if they do. The "rotten apples" saying, of course, is that a few rotten apples spoiles the whole bunch. Good cops don't just suddenly snap one day and commit corrupt acts out of nowhere, the people they work with know what they are like and what they do.
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