Which is the point—The pilot programs are recording rather mind-boggling decreases in the number of complaints against the police. It’s of course unknowable which fraction of that is “bullshit complaints becoming impossible” and which “Police who are on camera behave better” but it doesn’t matter. As a social and political problem, it goes away. That should have positive long term social impacts, especially in neighborhoods where the police are currently little trusted, but that is speculative. The direct effect is certain. And will spread. As other very-high efficiency social/political innovations have before.
Thats how it works—Most social reforms proposed don’t do anything and never get off the ground or are repealed. The ones that do become a part of the background of existence. Like having a police force to begin with. Labor laws preventing employers from taking absurd risks with the health and lives of their employees, wages that do more than just barely keep body and soul together and so on and so forth.
Virtually all political solutions have an aspect of technology to them. The doctors in a single-payer health care system don’t heal via the laying on of hands and prayer. It doesn’t mean making use of that technology in a particular way is not a political decision.
Which is the point—The pilot programs are recording rather mind-boggling decreases in the number of complaints against the police. It’s of course unknowable which fraction of that is “bullshit complaints becoming impossible” and which “Police who are on camera behave better” but it doesn’t matter. As a social and political problem, it goes away. That should have positive long term social impacts, especially in neighborhoods where the police are currently little trusted, but that is speculative. The direct effect is certain. And will spread. As other very-high efficiency social/political innovations have before.
Thats how it works—Most social reforms proposed don’t do anything and never get off the ground or are repealed. The ones that do become a part of the background of existence. Like having a police force to begin with. Labor laws preventing employers from taking absurd risks with the health and lives of their employees, wages that do more than just barely keep body and soul together and so on and so forth.
Virtually all political solutions have an aspect of technology to them. The doctors in a single-payer health care system don’t heal via the laying on of hands and prayer. It doesn’t mean making use of that technology in a particular way is not a political decision.