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I was watching one of those 'fly on the wall' documentories where they follow police around and watch their everyday activites, much like the 'cop camera' shows, only with a flull blown camera crew. Of the five perticular episodes of this I've seen, there have only been one or two insudences when the police were attacked by people they were arresting, or by disaproving onlookers. However, the way the officers speek of the events you'd think it was a far more regular thing, so this got me thinking; How much of an effect, be it positive or negitive, dose the presence of a full camera team make to confrunations the police have with common citizens?

Well, nobody WANTS to be seen on TV being an @$$hole. But a lot of people do want to be on TV. Hence we have something of a paradox.

Incidentally, every time you see a guy's face on COPS and it's not pixelated or blurred, it's because they got him to sign a release form - the show's creators have remarked on how eager some people are to sign it and let their worst behavior get on TV, just because IT'S FRIGGIN' TV.

I think that no matter how many cameras you have (hidden or public) you can never totally understand something until you live it yourself.

but that's just my $0.02 (btw, how much would that be worth in pounds & etc.?)

shyal_malkes wrote:but that's just my $0.02 (btw, how much would that be worth in pounds & etc.?)

.02 US Dollar = 0.01076 British Pound
.02 US Dollar = 0.02220 Canadian Dollar
.02 US Dollar = 0.16031 Chinese Yuan Renminbi
.02 US Dollar = 0.01573 Euro
.02 US Dollar = 0.00002858 Gold (oz.)
.02 US Dollar = 0.89928 Indian Rupee
.02 US Dollar = 2.23060 Japanese Yen
.02 US Dollar = 0.21888 Mexican Peso
.02 US Dollar = 0.06042 Polish Zloty
.02 US Dollar = 0.54196 Russian Rouble
.02 US Dollar = 0.02454 Swiss Franc

Astral wrote:I was watching one of those 'fly on the wall' documentories where they follow police around and watch their everyday activites, much like the 'cop camera' shows, only with a flull blown camera crew. Of the five perticular episodes of this I've seen, there have only been one or two insudences when the police were attacked by people they were arresting, or by disaproving onlookers. However, the way the officers speek of the events you'd think it was a far more regular thing, so this got me thinking; How much of an effect, be it positive or negitive, dose the presence of a full camera team make to confrunations the police have with common citizens?

You're only really going to find out once those cameras are replaced by stealth drones the media uses to take footage of arrest scenes without the knowledge of the civilians. It's really going to get interesting when they do it and the cops don't know about the drones either.

You forget, the people being filmed have to give permission for their likeness to be used. That will tip the hand of the photographers before the films reach the air. And as soon as the lawyers find out about stealth photographing of crimes, the legal septic tank that results will have police developing a jammer or even a way to shoot down the drones.

Or not. Maybe the LAWYERS would start shooting the drones down when they find the police have a recording of the crime.

labrusca wrote:You forget, the people being filmed have to give permission for their likeness to be used. That will tip the hand of the photographers before the films reach the air. And as soon as the lawyers find out about stealth photographing of crimes, the legal septic tank that results will have police developing a jammer or even a way to shoot down the drones.

Or not. Maybe the LAWYERS would start shooting the drones down when they find the police have a recording of the crime.

Those that don't give permission will be pixelated, as today. The drones are legal property and it will be a separate crime to shoot them down. Lawyers aren't dumb enough to risk their licenses over this and will fight to get the evidence excluded not obliterated.