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Comment Re:its the cops, not the cameras. (Score 5, Insightful) 170

Those cameraphones capture late-stage action and aftermath. The bodycams should capture the leadup and escalation that are really needed for an impartial/fair evaluation of the event. The events you cite do sound damning, but more footage would be helpful in evaluating the encounter. Knowing that footage exists helps, too - if only to slow the officer's reach for applied violence.

Y'know, if I've got that cellphone app that streams direct to the cloud for protection from abuse of power, can't the bodycams do the same thing? Local-only data is too vulnerable to loss or abuse.

Comment Re: Not the PSUs? The actual cables? (Score 3, Interesting) 137

Pakistan, in at least one of the local languages, translates as Land of the (people called) Paks.
Afghanistan -> Afghans
Turkmenistan -> Turkmen
and so forth.

Paki is a derogation (and a diminutive, besides). Pak would be the proper term, but because of our Latinate collective-nouning habits, it sounds wrong.

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