Body cameras were never intended to provide accountability and no one with the power to implement body camera programs has any interest in any kind of police accountability. Alec Karakatsanis has an incredibly detailed, convincing article on how this worked:
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hope folks realize it’s been decades now since “citizen review boards” and “more training” and even “body cameras” were launched to stop “police brutality” and the result is that police are still just as brutal -
I spent most of my life thinking I disliked potatoes.@skinnylatte What is the place in Rosemead? I'd love to try it.
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The “Cashless Society” is a Horrible Idea@AliceMarshall good article, but the conclusion seems a little naive:
"At best, it shows that the industry leaders pushing “cashless” systems haven’t thought it through properly; at worst, it shows that they just don’t care. "
The third and most likely reason is that they're making money from it and/or directly benefitting from the consequences the author describes, e.g. starving homeless people out of neighborhoods, etc.