Police Cam Mega-Thread

[Carl-Richard]

I think routinely watching these kinds of videos is like routinely hitting yourself in the nuts or teasing a snake to bite you. At some point, it just becomes self-torture.

[Terell Kirby]

4 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

I think routinely watching these kinds of videos is like routinely hitting yourself in the nuts or teasing a snake to bite you. At some point, it just becomes self-torture.

speak for yourself- I find it quite entertaining/enlightening

[Leo Gura]

4 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

like routinely hitting yourself in the nuts

Nah, it's eye-opening and fun.

[Buck Edwards]

4 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

I think routinely watching these kinds of videos is like routinely hitting yourself in the nuts or teasing a snake to bite you. At some point, it just becomes self-torture.

Yep. I totally agree with you. I don't see much value in these videos. Other than what we already know. 

I'm not sure what Leo is getting out of posting these videos. Maybe he should explain a bit. 

It seems like entertainment to me. 

[Terell Kirby]

This one's gnarly:

 

[Terell Kirby]

Great example of the insane levels of group-think and conformity of SJW protestors on college campuses:

 

[Carl-Richard]

20 hours ago, Terell Kirby said:

speak for yourself- I find it quite entertaining/enlightening

How do you feel when watching all these people in pain and misery?

[Leo Gura]

29 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

How do you feel when watching all these people in pain and misery?

It's good to see self-inflicted misery, as a warning lesson.

If I had kids I would be showing them all these videos. Better to see it than to live it.

Edited yesterday at 01:23 AM by Leo Gura

[Clarence]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

It's good to see self-inflicted misery, as a warning lesson.

If I had kids I would be showing them all these videos. Better to see it than to live it.

I think you're a bit harsh, because not everyone has high intelligence and mental capacities. I think that genetics play a big role here also, and a lack of these qualities must impair those people's ability to reflect on themselves and change their condition.

Your children would have a much higher chance of having a sane mind right from birth, and they would grow up in some of the best conditions. It sounds unfair to me to somehow compare them to drug addicts and such, as showing videos of this kind to those people when they were young likely wouldn't have been a cure.

I don't necessarily feel much for them either, especially when they hurt others in the videos (I've just watched 2-3), but I think there should still be some balance in term of judgment and felt compassion. I'm not sure it is fully healthy to be entertained from watching people in pain and misery, but I understand it is a good case to study.

[Leo Gura]

12 minutes ago, Clarence said:

It sounds unfair to me to somehow compare them to drug addicts and such, as showing videos of this kind to those people when they were young likely wouldn't have been a cure.

One of my best friends in high school was Canadian, grew up in a nice household similar to me. Went to the same good school as me. He was sane and normal. But then in high school he got mixed up with drugs and the wrong people. He became a drug dealer. Around age 25 his life turned so bad he shot himself in the head.

A good household is no safeguard from drugs or criminal behavior.

Edited yesterday at 02:55 AM by Leo Gura

[Clarence]

14 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

One of my best friends in high school was Canadian, grew up in a nice household similar to me. Went to the same good school as me. He was sane and normal. But then in high school he got mixed up with drugs and the wrong people. He became a drug dealer. Around age 25 his life turned so bad he shot himself in the head.

A good household is no safeguard from drugs or criminal behavior.

Indeed, but is the majority coming from good households? I know some people do well later in life despite growing up in bad environnents too, but very often, people behave a lot like their parents and have similar mental capacities. Your friend still had a better chance to choose another life trajectory than some people do. People who have bad genetics and bad, unskilled or uncaring parents have things set much harder for them. I think it's right not to judge everyone as harshly, especially as we don't know them from a video.

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, Clarence said:

unskilled or uncaring parents

A skilled parent will show their kids these videos.

It's not like being poor requires you to become a criminal or addict. Good education is the key.

Yes, some people get a very bad spawn point in life. But what is your solution? They still gotta try to do their best and avoid ending up in one of these police cams.

You should note that half the people in these police cams are not poor, they are just immature, ignorant, entitled, or drunk.

Edited yesterday at 04:47 AM by Leo Gura

[Princess Arabia]

On 1/4/2025 at 11:50 PM, Buck Edwards said:

I don't see much value in these videos.

Why does everything have to be of value. Soda doesn't have any value, but you drink it anyway. 

[Terell Kirby]

37 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

You should note that half the people in these police cams are not poor, they are just immature, ignorant, entitled, or drunk.

Prime example:

 

[Buck Edwards]

1 hour ago, Princess Arabia said:

Why does everything have to be of value. Soda doesn't have any value, but you drink it anyway. 

Yea I know. But there's violence in these videos. Some degree of violence. I don't have the stomach for violence. Maybe some people do. But I agree with your soda analogy. 

@Terell Kirby also not all people are entitled. They might appear so. But maybe they have psychological issues going on that makes them act out a bit. We don't exactly know their personal lives and struggles. Even if they weren't struggling financially, they might have struggled emotionally with hate and anger issues coming from disrupted households or nobody to properly guide them. I mean who knows right. 

@Clarence makes a good point. 

Edited 22 hours ago by Buck Edwards

[Leo Gura]

You think your rich kids ain't gonna be drinking, smoking weed, and driving???

[Buck Edwards]

6 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

You think your rich kids ain't gonna be drinking, smoking weed, and driving???

What if these rich kids are born to parents who have neglected them severely. You know certain narcissistic rich parents who don't raise their kids well. Or completely neglect them. What if? 

Obviously it's not the kids fault. 

I mean I agree that some rich kids can be spoiled rotten. But not all. 

 

Edited 22 hours ago by Buck Edwards

[Sempiternity]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

A skilled parent will show their kids these videos.

I highly agree, and would very much do the same if I ever had kids. I grew up in a rural area by good parents. There wasn't much to do around there, so when I was a teenager I got into crime. I would steal cars, drive recklessly, destroy property, break into anything we could. To me and my friends it was just fun. We were completely ignorant of the effects on others, and what could have happened to us if we ever got caught by the police. If I saw these videos as a kid I would have been set straight as an arrow, seeing what it's like to have real life repercussions of such deplorable actions. I would never had dared do any of the stupid shit we did. And I bet any kid seeing these would very much think twice in drinking and driving, running from cops, theft, assault, and so on, knowing you can get tased, your face ground into the ground, hog-tied, and have a criminal record that ruins the rest of your life, I bet any kid would not choose any of these paths. 

[Clarence]

I think drug addicts are a special case, even if they were from decent families. I think a lot of those people are in great suffering—to start consuming in the first place, but also living with and breaking free from such addictions must be hell.

I feel some compassion for those people. They may commit terrible actions, which is not likeable, but I can't help but think that they need help more than anyone. It might often be impossible to help them, but that makes their problems and suffering even worse.

5 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

A skilled parent will show their kids these videos.

It's not like being poor requires you to become a criminal or addict. Good education is the key.

Yes, some people get a very bad spawn point in life. But what is your solution? They still gotta try to do their best and avoid ending up in one of these police cams.

You should note that half the people in these police cams are not poor, they are just immature, ignorant, entitled, or drunk.

Yes, but people can't choose their parents, and many parents are incapable of educating and loving their children properly. They are themselves ignorant and immature in certain aspects.

Can people help themselves from ignorance and immaturity? I feel like a certain level of maturity and wisdom is a prerequisite for people to do good and improve themselves on their own.

Now, for people who have those qualities easily accessible but choose to conduct themselves poorly, I agree that they bear a greater responsibility for change and good conduct. However, something might still be lacking or 'wrong' with them—such as being very uncaring for whatever reason, in deep suffering, or not insighful enough at a certain point in their life. We don't know anyone's full story.

@Sempiternity Good feedback. I honestly thought that people who caused similar problems to the ones you were committing would not have cared about the possible consequences of their actions even after being made aware of them directly.

But I feel like wisdom alone would have been enough to save you from committing such behaviors (as you could have imagined those crimes being committed to you and felt the pain it would have caused). I might be wrong, but I feel like education about the consequences of violence is especially needed when people aren't inherently empathetic. And this is something I take for granted as I have been highly empathetic from birth.

[Carl-Richard]

11 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

It's good to see self-inflicted misery, as a warning lesson.

If I had kids I would be showing them all these videos. Better to see it than to live it.

You are living it right now by watching it, and when you repeat something, it's more likely to stick.