TO THE EDITOR:
A recent Daily Tar Heel article about police body cameras opened with, “It’s a step in the right direction.” Well, it’s not.
Body cams do nothing but increase the power of the police and further stabilize our unfree society.
Body cams aren’t even a good solution to the problems cited by campus leftists. If the problem is racism, then a recording of, say, Eric Garner isn’t going to matter because the whole idea of racism is that Eric Garner’s death was OK.
This development, then, is actually an opportunistic move by police to use a popular social issue as a tool to get what they’ve been asking for for a long time now.
The question of body cameras and surveillance in general is really a question of power. Since when did humans start figuring it was OK to put complete strangers in charge of their affairs?
John Fleshman
Sophomore
Information and library science
