Self-Inflicted Wounds

In two previous articles, I've written about some of the implications of increased public visibility of police conduct carelessly displayed by officers on social media sites, or captured by the citizen-filmmaker in an age when everyone carries a cell phone that's able to record practically every move you make. (See "The Whole World is Watching," September 2009, and "Video and You," October 2013.) Unfortunately, I keep seeing officers lose court cases and their careers by committing the missteps