We're all human beings. None of us are 100% faultless 100% of the time and with the exception of folks with an exhibitionist fetish none of us particularly enjoy being surveilled,

You're equating a constantly-overwriting black box that keeps around last two minutes of talk before a crash with continuous recording and long term storage of everything a police officer says, retrievable at his employers' pleasure.

You accuse me of logical fallacy? Really?

I'm sorry. Truly. One of my friends has worked call centers his entire career. It's a horrible, dehumanizing job. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

And I don't know about you, but I don't want the kind of people who would tolerate dehumanizing working conditions long term to run around with guns and squad cars. Like any worker, expect a policeman to treat you in every bit as dreadful a manner as his employer treats him.

I'm not a police officer and I have the ability to rob you of your constitutional rights any time I feel like it. I'm allowed to carry a gun too, and have the authority to invoke a citizens' arrest.

If I violate your rights and you can prove it, I'll go to jail afterwards. If they wouldn't, that's a problem with the prosecutors and court system, not a problem with the police force.

I'm leery of reducing a job as important as police officer to call-center working conditions. If you know anything about call centers, you should be too.

There are reasons call center ranks below garbage collection on the list of desirable jobs. This is one of them.

I understand your point though: you wouldn't tolerate that sort of treatment but the other guy should have to. He's different!

More precisely: control of the off switch and who has it.

I see what you did there.

The surveillance state is all about protecting people from falsehood and wrongdoing. What differentiates the surveillance state from actual protection? An off switch.

As I read these responses, I'm forced to wonder: would any of the posters tolerate having every spoken word recorded by The Boss throughout their shift? Even one of you?

I understand the history here, the past bad deeds from members of this particular police force,. Nevertheless, these voice recorders sound to me like an outrageous invasion of the person of officers who individually have been accused of and found guilty of nothing at all.

If I had that concern, I might record myself and retain control of the recordings. I certainly wouldn't tolerate my employer doing it for me.

History or no history, I wouldn't tolerate being under the microscope while on the job either. Would you?

It's the law, stupid. Netflix owns the DVDs it buys (first sale doctrine) and can rent them if it feels like it. Except where the publisher gives them a better deal to not own the DVDs, but then they can obviously rent them out too.