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Why Are Federal Agents Using GoPros, Smart Glasses, and Phones to Record Us?

https://gizmodo.com/why-are-federal-agents-using-gopros-smart-glasses-and-phones-to-record-us-2000707835
33•nickthegreek•10h ago

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jauntywundrkind•9h ago
Because they are antagonists to the world making Mickey of legitimate use of force. Hostis humani generis.

And being bad bad bad is a recruiting tactic for more. And it makes their victims feel bad, makes the situation worse.

secretsatan•8h ago
They want to be able to control what’s shown
avidiax•8h ago
If you look at the ICE agents, they all seem to have a variety of random gear. People have found their patches on Amazon.

My impression is that they are on a hiring frenzy, and are incredibly disorganized.

An AXON body camera is $800, usually sold with a subscription. If these ICE agents are buying their own gear, I can see why they'd just buy a GoPro or use their phone.

I'm sure the lack of traceability and accountability from private recording is a welcome "feature" (at least by the individual officers). The fact that the organization hasn't apparently prioritized or required accountable body-worn cameras is suspicious and unacceptable, but the available evidence is that this is organizational stupidity and negligence.

hammock•6h ago
Doesn’t the fact that they are filming at all point to the idea that they are at least aiming in the right direction (no pun intended), even if they still end up being disorganized and underfunded?
avidiax•5h ago
The officers may be filming for their own protection, but obviously, if they do something illegal, they can also just delete the data.

So the cameras are not providing accountability, except where the agents are either honest or mistakenly believe that the evidence is in their favor.

hammock•3h ago
Film of honest cops is a bad thing.
whattheheckheck•5h ago
From my perspective they are most likely not heading in the right direction.

They are massively funded and will get more and more embolden to record their crimes and say do something about it.

Then it will be a wedge. Support ice or not. Armband or not. Salute or not. Which side are you on. Cowards will pick the more violent side for self preservation and will soon find a country that's not worth living in anymore.

For curiosity, when in history has the federal govt failed to suppress an uprising in the USA?

kankerlijer•8h ago
If federal agents want exceptional power while running around in military gear, using military tactics, put them under the UCMJ and fry them for conduct unbecoming when they mess up.
0928374082•6h ago
Just what do actual soldiers think of the LARPers, anyway?
hammock•6h ago
I prefer a jury of us peers. Would you rather them tried by a colonel at Fort Bragg, or 12 Minneapolitans?
cyanydeez•8h ago
I'm guessing they're trialing, internally, using AI to falsify evidence and propagandize the american public.

Thats why they're so quick now to produce evidence. once they've tested, internally, their false evidence, they'll begin putting it out to vindicate themselves.

They're planning the "twitterfication" of government misinformation that like everything else, will take a lot more energy to debunk than produce.

That's why Elons back and why they'd release seemingly damning information.

You absolutely should not trust that they'll providing anything but falsified video. They're tired of lying wiht their mouths and would happily move to an AI propaganda grok.

If I said this even 5 years ago, it'd sound like paranoia, wouldn't it.

parineum•7h ago
> If I said this even 5 years ago, it'd sound like paranoia, wouldn't it.

Still does, just so you know.

cyanydeez•5h ago
If you say so, you must have been inured
TitaRusell•5h ago
But do they need propaganda? Half the US population loves seeing brown people and liberals dead.
whattheheckheck•5h ago
I think it's more like 10 to 15% and misinformed or cowardly or poor people that got screwed in life and want to lash out.

Check out Roots of Evil by Ervin Staub.

And Overcoming Evil by him as well

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