Police: ‘They filmed instead of helping’ – Aftonbladet

When the police came to the serious traffic accident, they were met by civilians rushed out of their cars – to film.

Instead of help, several people have been in the way of police work.

– The police in place perceived it as a great nonchalance and indifference, said field officer Viktor Adolphson.

A truck driver was killed in a traffic accident on the E4 level with Central warehouse in Huddinge early on Friday morning.

When police arrived at the scene had many civilian motorists already rushed out of their vehicles. But not to help – but to film, write the external command Viktor Adolphson in a post on Twitter.

– There were staff from my team who were there. There was a police car that more or less went into the accident, before the alarm had gone off, and even then, people stood and filmed, I have been narrated. Then they had taken no action at all, looked how it was with any damaged or so. I think it’s poor respect for other people in their vulnerability, he says to Aftonbladet.

“Great nonchalance and indifference”

The people who filmed should have been so obstinate that they impeded police work.

“Patrols were put time and effort into filming ask people to move out of the way. One person laughed at call ‘considerate’. Miserable, “writes Viktor Adolphson on Twitter.

– You get a little disappointed and local police took very offended. They perceived it as a great nonchalance and indifference from the audience, he says.

Viktor Adolph’s personal opinion is that the people filming an accident instead of helping are an increasingly common problem.

– Yes, with the smart phones. People are curious, the interest has always been there, but now there are new technical possibilities also. Everything is fast and everything ends up in the net and then forget other values.

Have the media, receiving readers’, any liability in this?

– Some suggest it, but I can not see it, that people stand and shoot and think “damn now I get 700 bucks.” I think more people do it for their own sake.

Selfish habits

Brian Palmer, a social anthropologist and lecturer at Uppsala University’s theological institution has researched and lectured on moral courage. He believes that the new technology may have made us more selfish.

– These technological achievements, everyone has constant access to cameras in their phones, may have grown some pretty selfish habits. It may have led to people in the first place started to think about how they can document something exciting, something unexpected, even in situations where you first should think of those who are injured and most probably need help.

“The ethics need to catch up”

But there is hope, says Brian Palmer.

– This is a fairly new phenomenon, it is perhaps only the last five years that people in general ‘ve had phones with cameras. It takes longer than that to create new rules of etiquette and ethics. Ethics needs to catch up with our new technological opportunities.

He therefore welcome a discussion of the phenomenon.

– I think it’s important to talk about inappropriate behavior as in case of accident . Then, people start to think about and hopefully learn when to shoot.

in some situations, it is essential that the public documenting ongoing police operations, he says.

– For example, when the in police assault. In the USA, police recently been very hard on African-American protesters, but fortunately much of this filmed and then it will be possible for the community to put pressure on the police force, says Brian Palmer.