Posted on 01/11/2016 5:04:58 PM PST by Boomer
efore retiring to dry heat and a second career in politics, Arizona state Sen. John Kavanagh arrested criminals in Times Square and other New York-area transit areas -- and one heroin bust 40 years ago, he says, inspired his new, instantly controversial bill to criminalize close-up filming of police in public.
The legislation would require people to be at least 20 feet away while recording “law enforcement activity†or farther if officers decide that’s needed. Recording inside private buildings such as homes would be allowed from “an adjacent room or area†unless an officer objects.
Violations would be petty offenses or, if a warning is given, misdemeanors carrying up to 30 days in jail.
I'm starting to think all LEO must were a camera at all times while on duty and not be able to turn it on or off; even in the bathroom. I say this because if they don't want to be filmed while doing their job; what other things do they have to hide besides normal body noises.
I bet he’s running as a pubbie too, right?
I do not think this is going anywhere, but time will tell.
to criminalize close-up filming of police in public.
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Does this show their pores???
Good. This is a common sense approach. There are good guys and there are bad guys. LEOs are the good guys. Harassing them is counter productive.
I really should have spell checked this before posting.. Sheesh!
“...Times Square and other New York-area transit areas...”
I stopped right there.
Like those old spaghetti westerns where all you saw was an eyeball part of a nose and thousands and thousands of sweaty pores.
” LEOs are the good guys.”
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Oh my,wait until the FR cop haters read that,
Should be fun.
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Good point mate!
Nope. Higher courts already have ruled as long as you do not interfere, you have a right to record cops in public.
Camera tech is getting so cheap and so small that the 10 dollar 1080p camera pin that you can stick on your shirt is surely coming soon.
And flash density is going up as prices go down.... that 10$ pin on cam will record for many hours... perhaps even days.
Everyone will be wearing the things to record their daily events.
You will have to make them illegal to keep cops from being recorded.
They could have blue tooth transfer to your smartphone so that instant upload to the net could be done... can’t destroy the video even by confiscating the cameras.
I'm not a cop hater at all. I do have a problem with one small town in Texas by the name of Waco though. The DA and entire legal system there is apparently corrupt.
It's LEO communities like them that give all LEO's a bad rap. I personally wish the LEO community would "police" their own and take care of that brown spot on their blue uniforms.
so...
If I get pulled over and I have a dash cam recording, I have to turn it off, in your opinion? It is less than 20 feet from the officer.
I am for recording *everything* for both my, AND the officer’s protection.
Good cops *want* to be recorded.
How about the woman who accused the cop of raping her and he was found innocent because of a camera? Want to take away *his* protections?
Get it all on camera and let the judge sort it out.
It's here and you cannot stop it.
Uh First Amendment.
If they are good guys no harm from recording their actions.
There are no bad cops?
Consider me skeptical.
Twenty feet seems reasonable.
IF LEO’s cannot be filmed in public then justice demands that the public cannot be filmed in public, including all those traffic cams and street cams. Surveillance for me but not for thee?
This would mean you could not film when you are stopped in traffic. Further, the cop can object and prevent all filming.
Seems to me there are already rules against interfering.
The answer should be an emphatic NO!!!
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