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Let's make the coppers wear cameras! That'll make the ba... Oh. No sodding difference

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nonsense

I met a guy who was actually in the camera room at a University when the UK police kicked off a riot (that is not an overstatement, students sat on the grass, police wade in with truncheons).

I forget the numbers but dozens of people went before the beak on video evidence alone, each bit of evidence being a few seconds only and ALL the rest was unavailable to defense lawyers even when it was the University that collected the data. In ALL cases. There was no other evidence other than that which the police selected. The guy I was talking too was there while it was being recorded. This is back in the day when video evidence was on a tapes and no'cameras on phones. The police took all the tapes, copied the bits they wanted and erased the rest. There was not even any attempt to conceal this.

Power corrupts. Old saw.

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