Does it make sense?

[jimlongley]

If we're lucky there's a recording somewhere that will shed light on the situation. People make terrible witnesses due to their own agenda or interest in the outcome, poor position to see/hear what is happening, lack of focus until the event is almost over, ect.

Isn't it interesting that many people expect every crime or police encounter to have a video and/or audio recording to serve as evidence and they view any situation without electronic surveillance to be a cover-up or an illegal or suspicious act?

You would be amazed how many cameras there are out in the wild now.

We even have cameras on Tazers, giving a barrels end view of the encounter.

It is always good to have the video, it keeps both sides honest. Heck, look at what it's done for Football...

Yeah, it's taken my wife's one hour games that last three hours to closer to four.

[jimlongley]

I have been observing a trend over the past many years. As more and more "eye witnesses" make it onto the news, and as more and more cases seem to get tried in the press instead of the courts, it seems that many of those eye witnesses tell the tale the way they want it to be, rather than the way it was. I mean flat out lies seconds after the incident.