The Rialto, CA experiment with them reduced use of excessive force by 90% and all use of force by over 50%. And that was in a department that already used cameras on their tasers, audio recorders, and cameras on their cars. In jurisdictions starting from zero for police monitoring the effect would be even greater.

Jesus Christ.... Not again. Between this & Hatra...what a fuckin' day. Maybe there's a medium sized island somewhere we could start a new country. Fuck-it-allapolis.

Just curious, but how do you think body cameras are going to help? Officers who are already breaking the law will just turn off the camera or take it off when they want privacy.

Remember folks! Ignore, dismiss and flag the trolls!

"Well, Mr. President I'm sorry that today isn't what you were expecting and I agree that History will almost certainly remember her as being the most important member of the Scooby Gang but Selma, sir, is the city in Alabama"

Not sure it even needs a caption...

Informative video (you have to click through to youtube) discusses how this city was where East meets West, with gods of various religions depicted. It was a city where people of various religious beliefs all lived together. No wonder ISIS wanted to destroy it.

My inner archaeologist despises this SO MUCH. Obviously terror organizations are evil fuckers. But WHY do they have to touch these creations of humanity's ancestors? I get that their crazy ideology makes them hate people, but why historic objects? GET AWAY FROM MY LOVE OF HISTORY. asdhfjaslfasdfj.

I actually USE evolution in my research (some cell lines need to be split at certain intervals and concentrations so subpopulations don't outcompete the others) so you can suck my ass tbqh

I think idiots cling so strongly to Evo Psych theories because it explains things we don't understand and cannot prove. Our early ancestors needed to be aware of things like "what's in that bush that moved," because it mattered to our survival. Later, as I world got more complex and we asked questions like "why does…

The hammer is a penis.

for real!! And never mind that many/most hunter gatherer groups rely on the gathering for most of their calories!

As an armchair evolutionary psychologist, I believe that people who secretly prey on other humans to solo torture/murder for fun are outliers who might kindaaa operate outside some basic biological norms and be exempt from this evo psych BS anyway.

Call me crazy but I think most humans evolved to, you know, not crave…

Yeah, I always thought the difference between hunting and gathering was that hunting involved killing an animal that could run away, while gathering involved picking berries and other foodstuffs not capable of locomotion. But it turns out hunting is just whatever men do, and gathering is just whatever women do! The…

Those of us who believe evolutionary psych is bullshit do not believe that psychology "magically appeared." I'm a psychologist. I believe in evolution. I also believe in social construction. I do not think evolutionary psych is a science. Sciences test their hypotheses empirically. Evolutionary psych takes examples…

True that. Also I have long been bugged by how many people seem to condescend a bit to 'gathering'. For years now I've been studying my tribe's ethnobotany (an oft overlooked subject as we are from a region famous for fishing; plants get overlooked) and if nothing else I've learned 'gathering' is never as simple as…

I dismiss this because I'm an actual scientist who understands important things like empirical data and confirmation bias.

But then Super Evo Psych Man wouldn't be able to recycle the whole "hunter vs gatherer" "Mars vs Venus" paradigm thingy!! As long as we can call female killers "gatherers", then everything fits neatly into his Super Evo Psych world, just as he suspected it did!

And you cannot just attribute anything involving our psychology to speculation of evolution and ancient societies. That's not how science works. And once again, no one is denying evolution, we're just pointing out that these bullshit evo psych speculations are easily refuted by basic anthropology and sociology. You…

How did you manage to interpret criticism of speculated "ancestral tendencies" as denying the theory of evolution as a whole?