Posted on 08/12/2015 4:52:56 AM PDT by Leaning Right
In a recent interview with The Boston Herald, Boston police Commissioner William Evans whined about people who record the police, even going so far as to call for a new law that would criminalize the act of recording a police officer while standing within a certain distance of them.
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So if the Commissioner simply wants a law to prevent a citizen from getting face to face with a police officer (as he claims), he's picking an odd way to do it.
Is this idiot for real?
He wants to outlaw being a witness?
Commish Evans resembles an escaped genetic experiment.
Must be why he’s so butthurt over videotaping police.
He might get caught raiding chees from mousetraps.
Not enough criminals?
Create more laws.
BFL
Only when there is a possibility that the JBTs are engaged in criminal activity. What do they always tell up? "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear."* The government and its beloved police want to rule serfs, not serve citizens.
*First attributed to Laverenty Beria and it was of course a lie then and is a lie now.
NOT ONLY NO BUT HELL NO!!
What the hell is he thinking? Good cops should be DEMANDING video to protect themselves from false accusations.
And good people should be demanding it to protect themselves from b ad cops.
Video is a win-win every place its used.
“tell up” = “tell us” (Must have coffee)
If we’ve learned anything, it’s that a cop’s story is presumed true, unless there is video to the contrary. So naturally we have to get rid of the video.
You've summarized it nicely. Those who don't want to be recorded are part of the 95% that give the other 5% a bad name.
A link to an article for the Boston Globe on that issue.
Very funny!
Give him whiskers and he looks like Chuck E Cheese!
The five percent of cops that aren’t corrupt want videos.
But it’s OK for the police to record the citizens....
two sets of rules....
Huck fim.
I could figure one of them out. I had tried to place a long distance call from my home phone, but dialed “9” first, like I was on the office phone. Never figured out how a second one was placed.
OK, I can remember at least two instances where the officer had obviously just broken up with his wife, or something. But even then they had me dead to rights, wrote my ticket, and let me go on my way with no trouble.
Of course it helps that I treat them with respect, have no criminal record and no outstanding warrants against me, and am fairly well into “late youth” (I'm currently 67).
Still, they have a right to tape any encounters with the police.
Not if you count the ones who remain silent about the abuses that they see in their fellow police as part of the problem.
What the hell is he thinking? Good cops should be DEMANDING video to protect themselves from false accusations.
And good people should be demanding it to protect themselves from b ad cops.
Video is a win-win every place its used.
There have been several incidents in the news recently of a cop being exonerated of the accusations of a complaint because the video showed the complainant was lying.
Good cops should absolutely be clamoring for bodycams and the like.
Bad cops, on the other hand do not like the light of day to shine on their actions.
Not if you count the ones who remain silent about the abuses that they see in their fellow police as part of the problem.
Exactly. If the ratios were really 95% good and 5% bad, the good ones would be able to get rid of the bad pretty easily.
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