I was falsely arrested
I&#x27;m happy that this guy finally got out of jail. Here&#x27;s hoping he doesn&#x27;t let this terrible tragedy hurt him the rest of his life.<p>I support any reasonable thing the public can do to help folks like him out. We live in a security state, and video cameras everywhere are beginning to show how rotten it is in places.<p>Having said all of that, I do not want to see us become self-indulgent with pity. There are 300 million people in the U.S. There are tens of thousands of cops. You could run a video like this everyday and statistically there still wouldn&#x27;t be much incompetence or corruption going on.<p>It presents us with an interesting problem, which I&#x27;m seeing in not just police incompetence&#x2F;corruption cases, but all across the political spectrum: when you have large numbers of people, even if an extremely small percentage of them do bad things, it&#x27;s easy to paint a picture of them all doing bad things. That&#x27;s true whether it&#x27;s cops, members of political party X, members of group Y, or so on.<p>Note that I&#x27;m not saying it&#x27;s an insignificant problem. I&#x27;m saying that this type of presentation, while powerful, provides us with zero context to gauge the size of the problem at all. When we consume such content, especially when it&#x27;s highly emotionally manipulative, we should remember this.