"I don't think there's any question that the proliferation of cellphone video and the ubiquitous recording of everything that's happening is impacting policing," says Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union Donna Lieberman.
The first panelist, Bo Dietl, a former NYPD detective, said that the Black Lives Matter movement and its calls for greater police accountability have negatively impacted police.
"I know that this incident could impact police and community relations, therefore, I will ensure a thorough and transparent investigation will be conducted".
Jocelyn Simonson, a professor at Brooklyn Law School who studies the impact of filming on police, said the proliferation of cell phone cameras does impact police behavior, but just not in the way Comey thinks.
Families like that of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and so many others don't know about lists of potential replacements; they just pray that justice and reform as directed from the top continues to impact police departments and neighborhoods around the country.
"They're telling me: 'Every single traffic stop or street stop, I've got 15 cellphones filming me.'" "I don't know how much more people want to impact policing – people that have never done policing, by the way – before they realize that they've curtailed the opportunity to be proactive," Angelo said.
Yet the shooting in Ferguson should also be cause to recognize how a heavily-armed civilian population adversely impacts policing and our communities.
"We've been documenting the bad impact police behaviour has on HIV risk and transmission, but far less work has been done on how to change those behaviours and bring police onside.
The guardrail bore no scars from the Honda, for there was no impact; police investigators said the vehicle hit a curb that propelled it directly over the guardrail and into a wooded area, landing upside down.
The guardrail bore no scars from the S.U.V., for there was no impact; police investigators said the driver had lost control, and the vehicle first struck a Jersey barrier at the center median, and then veered sharply to the right, hitting a curb that propelled it directly over the guardrail.
