While we're obviously seeing more widespread distribution of footage of the worst incidents via social media, isn't it likely that policing has actually improved over the last couple of decades, as the genuinely bad cops are increasingly likely to be caught on camera now that there's hundreds of millions of smartphones, dashcams, bodycams, CCTV cameras, etc out there?
You're making the assumption that without social media outrage, that that catching a cop doing bad things on video matters, or us evidence of some crime.
They aren't. The cops won't go after their own, and the politicians will only respond to public pressure.
Video footage makes it easier to get public outrage, but it's still the public outrage that has to do the work to hold cops accountable
