Flutterby™! : Brooks on "intimate friendship"

Ya know, I don't know if pointing this out is just encouraging the New York Times engaging in link baiting, or if I'm calling out someone taken seriously.

New York Times: David Brooks: The Lost Language of Privacy:

Cop-cams chip away at that. The cameras will undermine communal bonds. Putting a camera on someone is a sign that you don’t trust him, or he doesn’t trust you. When a police officer is wearing a camera, the contact between an officer and a civilian is less likely to be like intimate friendship and more likely to be oppositional and transactional. Putting a camera on an officer means she is less likely to cut you some slack, less likely to not write that ticket, or to bend the regulations a little as a sign of mutual care.

Holy shit, can he not see how fucking privileged that is? The Facebook teaser for this said:

I support putting cameras on the police, but we need to acknowledge that we will pay a high price for them in lost privacy and social trust.

No, asshole, this isn't about losing that social trust, this is about re-gaining that trust. Ya know, that morons like this have writing gigs with international stature is a good reminder that humans are stupid.