I watched the video on my iPad, and could see Scott, who was apparently unarmed, running away from the officer, Michael Slager. Cameras are pervasive—increasingly put in patrol cars and on police officers’ bodies, in building surveillance devices, and, of course, on civilian cell phones. The pervasiveness of cameras is actually a great thing for modern police work. When I was a police officer in California, in the 1980s, we didn’t have all this technology.



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