While other jobs might be very dangerous (I worked the flight deck of an aircraft carrier - one of those jobs - for an extra $85 a month) they generally don’t involve confronting people (who may be armed) about their behavior. I’m not apologizing for terrible cops - I’m saying it’s a terrible job that by its very nature produces situations where people can get shot. SHould there be better training? Of course. SHould there be stricter controls on who gets to be a cop? Yes. Should we do a whole host of other things to address this? Of course!
But is anyone willing to pay for it? NO.
But sure, let’s come up with a clever term like “copaganda” and pat ourselves on the backs about how progressive we are. However it is far better than “libtard”.
Citation needed. How often, based on the data that multiple people on this site have pointed to, do those situations happen? There’s a reason why those “clever terms” exist, based on facts - vs. schoolyard taunts typically used by uneducated children.
There are about 20 million traffic stops in the US a year. In 2019 six of those resulted in a police officer being shot. Making a traffic stop as a cop is literally safer than going down a ski-hill. No matter how we imagine the fear we feel of other people, the absolute risk of making a traffic stop is negligible in the extreme.
Since it should probably be facing forward to see as close to exactly what the cop sees, at worst it might get a picture of waste if you lean over the toilet. Most of the time it would get a nice picture of the wall of the toilet stall or maybe the wall of a single-occupancy restroom.
But even if it does, the camera should still record the stool image. If that footage needs to be entered into evidence in a trial or used as part of the process of getting a warrant, have someone (maybe a medical professional) redact a copy of the footage. That professional should attach to that copy a sworn statement of what they redacted from the copy and why.
The original is still available if that redacted portion is relevant, such as if it captured an important sound during that time.
I’m worried less about what they would see, vs hear. I personally am very private in the bathroom. I HATE using a rest room with someone else there. YMMV.
