Thread by @wanyeburkett

The body-cam backlash is beginning, because the use of body worn cameras did not turn out the way activists had hoped propublica.org/article/how-po…

The thing about activists is that they’re going to say exactly the same thing after every shooting no matter what, so thank God for the cameras in this latest case which clearly exposed their lies. What good do cameras do the activists here? A man is shot by police and the activists are going to say the exact same words about that no matter what the footage shows. They are insane liars and ignoramuses who benefit in no way from evidence that is so often inconvenient.

This would have been obvious to the activists from the beginning if they weren’t such stupid people.

Evidence is only useful if you care about evidence and activists plainly do not care about evidence, which they have demonstrated in case after case after case. What were arguing about on Twitter today isn’t new or isolated. Activists say the same thing about every single shooting, every single time, no matter the details, no matter the differences. They say the exact same words in the exact same way every single time. So what is the point of collecting evidence? Activists really should have realized before this debate even began that body-worn cameras could only harm their cause.

A body-worn camera in Ferguson in 2014 would have shown Michael Brown attacking the officer in that case and stopped the “hands up don’t shoot” narrative dead in its tracks.

It should be totally obvious that rumors and ambiguities benefit the activists.

The other thing about activists is that they are too stupid and impulsive to separate the things they say about police officers in the public from what any intelligent person would know to be the case in private.

If you’re an activist and you want to tell the public that cops are insane, bloodthirsty maniacs who are looking for any excuse to kill with impunity, then, you know, get your bread, I get it. But surely in private you should understand that this isn’t actually true and that the presence of cameras probably won’t change police behavior all that much, since the majority of police are just morally normal people trying their best.

But, this is a kind of good news, in a way, because it shows that activists really do believe what they say. I guess that’s better than a world in which they are all cynical Machiavellians. No, they actually believe the shit that comes out of their mouths and it’s why even when they get their way it doesn’t turn out like they think it will.

Progressive policies on things like crime and policing never have any hope of working, because it’s garbage in, garbage out. Progressives have an insane theory of human behavior that totally denies every shred of evidence we have about human nature and so they really are flailing in the most literal sense.

If you start with the position that police are insane, bloodthirsty, maniacs, then constant surveillance of their behavior can only possibly be disappointing to you, because obviously what it’s going to show is that the police are not actually insane, bloodthirsty, maniacs. But imagine if you really believed that that’s what the cameras were going to show? They really believed that! They really thought that if we could just videotape their actions it would reveal them to be insane, bloodthirsty, maniacs.

Of course, that’s actually more or less true of the 1% most violent people in the country, which is what we pay police officers to deal with, so a proper understanding of the world would have led you to realize that body cameras would mostly be exonerating and reveal to the public just how dangerous and insane criminals are.

There needs to be a service of conservatives for hire who can explain basic things about human nature to progressives and help them design policies that get them what they want.