COMMENT | The reason why cops don’t want to be recorded

COMMENT | When it comes to raids, it is not as if the police do not want publicity. They just do not want evidence of their actions.

This is why, in this age of handphones and instant communication, they are deathly afraid of the possibility that their actions during a raid would be open to scrutiny.

The last thing a state security apparatus wants in any form of democracy is scrutiny, especially from the public.

This is why the police have fought tooth and nail against any kind of sustained, transparent oversight. The propagandistic nature of the police in mainstream popular (Malay) culture is also how the state enforces certain narratives.

Recordings of police raids, or any kind of recordings between the public and police...