You've got a point there. What I should have written was that when there is video evidence of cops behaving badly, it seems that they behave themselves a little better, for a while anyways. Its like a school yard bully; If you show their mommy evidence that they have been behaving badly, they are usually shamed into behaving better. Put video of cops bullying 300 cyclists on the six o'clock news, the general public might cause a big enough stink that the cops would have to back down, until the great unwarshed masses got caught up in the next uproar.

Better?