I can see why you would have that opinion. I myself disagree only because, in the past, a cop's opinion was the only one that mattered. Unless, in the few rare circumstances, a powerful individual was pulled over (Like a mayor or police chief.) Think on this--who is the camera around most often, the civilian or the cop? Who does it watch more?

(All of these incidents were on the news)
For example, Rodney King may not have been a dash cam, but the police were still caught. A cop nearby my residence pulled a drunk driver from her vehicle--through the window. He had all right to do so, because she tried to gun it and was behind the wheel of a dangerous weapon. But who gets suspended? In a booking jail in my home state, a paraplegic was dumped out of a wheelchair... Cop got a felony and deserved it. Later, a man threw himself from a wheelchair while a cop was trying to prevent either from getting harmed, and guess who gets suspended? (It was on tape and someone had to take the fall because, even though you could see what happened, a quick glance suggested it was his fault. And people tend to have short attention spans.) In a prison, four officers (Alibis) go into a cell when the power goes out (Dumbasses, backup power is a beautiful thing,) and beat a murderer to death.

The list goes on and on, and since most cameras do not affect the average joe, I tend to believe they are there for a reason beyond the cop's best interest. Remember, even if the cop is justified, "Cameras never lie."

Now, the Police Departments do benefit from dash cams, simply because they can limit liability.


>> ^Porksandwich:
I dunno I think the dash cam is there for non-biased record, it is as much for the cop as it is for the person he stopped. But I also think that they've let a lot of officers run solo because of the dash cam, since they don't need a second officer to file their report on any incident that might occur. As long as it happens mostly on camera and the audio is captured. You'll notice they have multiple units of single occupied vehicles show up to situations where their dash cam is unlikely to record anything useful....like responding to noise complaints and other such minor things...car can't record that without being positioned very deliberately.
The only downside to dash cams are that the footage can be tampered with or "lost" when it's convenient for the police. I haven't heard of any system where the footage is captured direct from car with no human hands/eyes being involved in it's cataloging and tamper resistant storage (nothing is foolproof, but it should at least be something deliberate to cause loss of records where it's not explained away as inefficiencies and mistakes).

If i had female anatomy I'd be... NVM

I always loved this song ever since I heard it in the Rodney Dangerfield movie "Ladybugs" in the early nineties.

and ya, looked at his mug. its fucking road rash, which is par for the course cuz his face ate pavement. he didnt get a beating dumbass. It just looks bad. theyre fucking surface scabs boo damn hoo. this isnt in any way comparable to say battered wives or something. his "wounds" wont even leave scars and he's got a shiner that will dissipate in like 2 days. he's not a fucking martyr. he's some dumbass who had a bit too much to drink to be driving and then refused to complete an FST and then repeatedly resisted arrest.

do i feel sympathy for the guy? a little. I mean only sick people enjoy the physical injury of another. so ya, sucks that he got slammed like that and subsequently got rashed and ko'd. but for fucks sake the guy is no rodney king

>> ^gnargnar:

As a skater, I have to rain on the parade. These are all joke tricks for your standard pro skater, and most aren't even executed exceptionally well. Touching your front wheels in a manual? Putting your foot down? That's basic no-no stuff.
Chris Haslam blows all of this out of the water when he's playing around. Richie Jackson. There's lots of "circus skaters" out there that destroy this dude.
And as someone that's not much of a Mullen fan- Rodney Mullen is roughly 829% better than this guy.
Sorry.


I will post your video if you put it on youtube. I'd have to see your credentials in order for me to qualify this statement. A lot of people can talk the talk...

>> ^gnargnar:

As a skater, I have to rain on the parade. These are all joke tricks for your standard pro skater, and most aren't even executed exceptionally well. Touching your front wheels in a manual? Putting your foot down? That's basic no-no stuff.
Chris Haslam blows all of this out of the water when he's playing around. Richie Jackson. There's lots of "circus skaters" out there that destroy this dude.
And as someone that's not much of a Mullen fan- Rodney Mullen is roughly 829% better than this guy.
Sorry.


If that's the case I won't bother correcting his name from the title - the video says Kilian.

As a skater, I have to rain on the parade. These are all joke tricks for your standard pro skater, and most aren't even executed exceptionally well. Touching your front wheels in a manual? Putting your foot down? That's basic no-no stuff.
Chris Haslam blows all of this out of the water when he's playing around. Richie Jackson. There's lots of "circus skaters" out there that destroy this dude.
And as someone that's not much of a Mullen fan- Rodney Mullen is roughly 829% better than this guy.

Sorry.

Very Rodney Mullen. It's like he's taken Rodney's stuff and thought "how can I do this using fewer feet?"

I think he is in the same league as Rodney Mullen or even a step above!

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>> ^dag:

I've spent a couple months in Thailand- and have friends in Bangkok. It's really disheartening to see this kind of strife happening. It's a place where Buddhist monks in saffron robes are walking down almost very street- lots of smiles and laughter.
I know they're only human and capable of the worst like all of is- but nationally I never thought they had this in them.


I didn't think the Greeks where modernly capable of the row either.

This sort of thing is common in the US, only they call it a riot or a street gang. Of course I'm speaking of Rodney King, or all the other riots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_riots

I don't know much about Australia, but I would assume that the Aborigine have seen their fair share too. (http://www.australian-news.net/Redfern_riots.htm)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Riots_in_Australia

Riots, revolts, from my arm chair they all look the same; however I have the cognitive power to know that is not true in many places. People have grievances, they should be aired or they end up like this video.

I 100% agree with that point of view. You could get a similar reaction from any group of people that feel persecuted. Take for instance the Rodney King riots. The Rodney King incident was just the spark that lit the powderkeg of centuries of built-up racism and oppression.

I'm not condoning the violence in either situation at all. I'm just saying that in this instance it has much deeper causes then most "religion-made-them-do-it" Sifters are willing to admit.

>> ^vlsd:

If these people weren't losing their shit over some cartoon, they would be angry at something else. The anger came first, the cartoons are simply a pretext to express it. I am not defending their behavior, but given the shitty conditions in the middle east and the rampant racism in the western world, I can almost see how someone would explode at the smallest perceived threat to their culture.

"People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along?"
-Rodney King

This is obviously what Steele was referring to, and it's a shame he's so inarticulate because that's honestly a very good idea. I presume he has people around him that get paid to help him avoid this shit. They should be fired. He'd have been far better off saying something like "To quote Rodney King, 'can we all get along?'" Anyone who took issue with that statement would be as bat-shit as these Republicans out there taking issue with every damn thing Obama says or does.

Maybe in the alternate history conservatives believe in, the reason Rodney King is famous is because the way the police dealt with him was a shining example of humans settling their disagreements in an amicable and respectful manner.

Who could he possibly have meant instead of Rodney King?

Alternatively, maybe he wants to beat some "sense" into all of us.