Law in Contemporary Society

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<		The human agents recording videos might intentionally manipulate them to skew the representation of the depicted events. Nevertheless, as long as the number of manipulated videos is small compared with the total number of videos, then introduced bias ought to remain relatively slight. When Hitchcock showed moviegoers a shower scene in “Psycho,” most thought that they had seen Janet Leigh naked. They hadn’t. They had been duped. Perhaps someone manipulating their gaze in another way could have similarly duped them even if they had been standing in person in the bathroom at the Bates Motel. However, if there were numerous security and mobile phone cameras in the room, each independently capturing the event, I don’t think that such chicanery would be possible.
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>		The human agents recording videos might intentionally manipulate them to skew the representation of the depicted events. Nevertheless, as long as the number of manipulated videos is small compared with the total number of videos, then introduced bias ought to remain relatively slight. When Hitchcock showed moviegoers a shower scene in “Psycho,” most thought that they had seen Janet Leigh naked. They hadn’t. They had been duped. Perhaps someone manipulating their gaze in another way could have similarly duped them even if they had been standing in person in the bathroom at the Bates Motel. However, if there were numerous security and mobile phone cameras in the room, each independently capturing the event, the bias introduced from chicanery perpetrated by only a few filmmakers would be minimal.
 Perhaps an even more damning limitation of the foregoing model and its application is that video cannot directly prevent the conscious or subconscious biases of fact-finders from skewing factual interpretation of even the most indisputable evidence. This was starkly exemplified by the 1992 acquittal of the officers who beat Rodney King. Nevertheless, I believe that as factual evidence becomes more palpably indisputable, social forces far more powerful than the law may curtail the flexibility of fact-finders to disregard resonant Truth.

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