Years ago, when Burt Reynolds was the biggest movie star in the world, he was in the movie “Starting Over.” His character had just gone through a divorce, and a friend urged him to “call me if anything goes wrong.”
His reply: “Can I call you if anything goes right?”
That line came to mind this week while reading about the smartphone app from North Carolina’s chapter of the ACLU. It will allow you to record and automatically submit cellphone videos when you think law enforcement officers do something wrong.
Will it allow us to submit videos when cops do something right?
Some law enforcement officials are wary of the efficacy of such an app, fearing that it might lead to people interfere in what is already a dangerous job. Eddie Caldwell, representative of the N.C. Sheriffs Association, said, “most law enforcement is like that Ivory soap commercial. They’re 99.44 percent pure. They’re not perfect, but they’re close.”
The imperfect ones are the ones most agitated by the app, I’m guessing.
