FBI Director thins cops are worse than bank tellers and blackjack dealers

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link NY Times

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James O. Pasco Jr., executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police has different opinion.

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[dead0man]

what point is being made here with the thread title?

Bank tellers and blackjack dealers are video taped while working and it doesn't make them not able to do their jobs.  Cops shouldn't have any problem with it either.

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Because police unions, like unions in general, feel they must protect the worst among them.


edit-and I said "shouldn't have a problem with it", I didn't say that none of them have a problem with it.

[dead0man]

Totally.  Life and death, liberty and detention....they have that power, backed up by the state, over all of us.  The skill set needed and the type of mental makeup required aren't in all of us, and they should be compensated well to get the best.  Certainly more than bank tellers and card dealers.

They still shouldn't take issue with being filmed.  They should desire it in fact.  For their own protection.

[dead0man]

No doubt about it.  People in general act differently when they know they are being filmed.  Which is why cameras on cops are good.  Good cops aren't going to care much, and will just do their job like normal.  Bad cops are very much going to care, and will bitch about it, but they will also act better knowing their actions are being recorded.  It won't get rid of all police shenanigans, but having them will certainly lower it and make it easier to get to the truth either way.