Are there any good arguments against it?
I say that if they want to have militarized equipment, they should get it only on condition that they have ubiquitous cameras, with no ability to withhold recordings other than to protect victims’ identities.
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No withholding…they can protect the ID of the victims by pixilation.
Sometimes, but I’m sure you can imagine scenarios where pixilation (and bleeping out the person’s name) won’t suffice to mask the identity of a person. Say they have to go to someone’s house, and their child answers the door alongside their parent. Even if you pixelate the child’s entire body, it is pretty clear to the viewer that the video is showing the child who lives at the house.
ok now stack that up against a rogue cop beating someone mercilessly. I saw video of a cop sitting on a woman besting her head on a median in a busy road. Her face was pixilated. I bet some of her friends could recognize her. Yet I’m glad we saw it because the cop was clearly violating that person’s rights. The fargin icehole said he was just trying to protect her from herself.
Which evil do you choose?
Besides you can pixilate the house out.
I think you have a good point. I just think that it will get complicated and there will be unintended consequences.
“Even if you pixelate the child’s entire body, it is pretty clear to the viewer that the video is showing the child who lives at the house.”
I think that that could be considered adequately covered by Rand’s carve-out “to protect victims’ identities.”