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The police are expending a lot of resources to figure out who's cutting their little cameras down.
And I say they are their cameras because Flock doesn't install them where there's nobody paying them.
The thing the cops need to recall is something Sir Robert Peele said:
"To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfill their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect."
That sentence is almost 200 years old.
It's still true.
The cops wasting resources finding the people who are cutting these cameras down is undermining public approval of their existence at a time when half the body politic has been clamoring for their elimination.
Good show!
Getting back to Peelian Principles would go a long way towards mending the rift between the police and the citizens who've delegated their powers to them.
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