Silver lining! The cameras are catching criminals.

Right, because you don’t want to let the little guys mess it up for the big guys: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/fbi-seeks-us-wid...

Gotta make a statement with the low level grunts so the citizenry think these systems have accountability.

Not true, but also not widely reported. Cops are fired all the time for a wide variety of reasons.

Until they negotiate protections in their next contract.

FOR NOW. People, police states are about two classes of people: the police, and you.

What is remarkable about this story is that something happened to them. Now were they prosecuted for any of a hundred laws they probably broke?

No.