CBP Agent Rams Vehicle into Videographer

And even if you stretch it half-way and it was sort of deliberate but not intended to be as bad, you still should think "oh fuck" and stop, help, report (yourself) in that order.

Hopefully the video evidence will force a breaking point sooner than "your word against mine", but, like you, I'm not as sure as I used to be.

Ultimately the problem is that many people are happy to believe what they want to believe, and no amount of video or audio evidence will change their mind about it. There are sometimes people who just need to be convinced, but the way things run these days, those people usually aren't the ones in power.

Pervasive video recording means we get to see more of the day-to-day atrocities being committed but that doesn't matter much in most cases because the people in power already knew and don't care.

IMO cameras are more useful as a tool to defend yourself against the state rather than to bring charges against the state. The government doesn't want to bring charges against those enforcing it's laws as that would cause other enforcers to be less willing to do the work.

Video might help force a debate about the behavior and roles of police.

But the only technology that can really fix this is training. And changing the mentality of law enforcement in the US.

I certainly feel like we catch more bad behavior than we have in the past. If we think of it like a funnel, we're stuffing more cases in the top.

We (obviously) need to do more downstream in the funnel. As great as lines are about voting carefully, that doesn't really seem to fix the problem. Maybe pooling money and naming and shaming the people who don't chase these cases? Of course, that also risks the angry mob problem.

No, it's not like this in other developed countries.

We don't let officers do this where I live.