Whats not to understand? The police do not do a good job of policing themselves.
Citizens have a responsibility to ensure their police forces do not become tyrants.
>It’s pointless to do all this documenting without a way to turn it into accountability.
The light of public attention is the first step to accountability. Copwatchers gather the evidence that will eventually result in a conviction of those who abuse their position as police officers.
That is the point. How is this so hard to understand?
> there are never consequences
This is false. There are many, many cases of bad cops going to jail because a concerned citizen got them on camera, violating their position.
Unless you go looking for these cases, though, you won't see any. Policing in America has gotten too powerful. The only effective thing to do about it, is for citizens to turn their cameras on and start documenting the abuses, far and wide.
> documenting police abuses.
Whats not to understand? The police do not do a good job of policing themselves.
Citizens have a responsibility to ensure their police forces do not become tyrants.
>It’s pointless to do all this documenting without a way to turn it into accountability.
The light of public attention is the first step to accountability. Copwatchers gather the evidence that will eventually result in a conviction of those who abuse their position as police officers.
That is the point. How is this so hard to understand?
> there are never consequences
This is false. There are many, many cases of bad cops going to jail because a concerned citizen got them on camera, violating their position.
Unless you go looking for these cases, though, you won't see any. Policing in America has gotten too powerful. The only effective thing to do about it, is for citizens to turn their cameras on and start documenting the abuses, far and wide.