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by ethbr1 798 days ago
Bingo. Body cameras are a technically-solveable problem.

Zero tolerance and enforcement should be the starting place.

(Coupled with adjusting policies and procedures to be more in line with actual experience, if we're going fully transparent)

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Bingo, you have the answer. Now do the same suggestion for security cameras in homes for domestic violence, bathrooms for rape, politician's and judges offices for bribery, offices of government clerks, etc.

You'll realize people get very uncomfortable very quickly when you start heading down a near bulletproof solution. They want the chaos, the charade and they definitely want the "vagueness" of laws because they can't handle the black and white nature of a lot of laws that were drawn up lazily.

Laws and enforceability are intrinsically linked.

If you have non-omniscient enforcement, there's a certain amount of lubrication between the law and reality.

If you have omniscient enforcement, the onus is on the law to account for reality.