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[Uncle]

I watch a lot of body cam footage. And I'm not the only one. Some of the video views are crazy. Police departments should start their own monetized YouTube channels. Not sure if it's legal but they could make some extra cash to buy more toys.

I know many cops are bad and abusive, and I think no matter where you work it's natural to want to defend your coworkers and claim whatever perks of the job you can, and that's one kind of job where that sort of thing has an outsized impact on a lot of people and really should be clamped down on

however, they deal with so much fucking insane shit on a daily basis, they're practically living in a different world from the rest of us, probably have to develop certain prejudices just to stay safe, make assumptions based on your years on the job and how things go 90% of the time, to where I don't know if you can always blame them

I think seeing what they deal with goes a long way toward humanizing them and understanding what they go through

don't cut them slack that's undeserved if they're being cruel, but...y'know, sometimes