Posted on 03/10/2017 11:02:23 AM PST by heartwood
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — An attorney is speaking out after he says two law enforcement officers told him it was illegal to film them during a traffic stop.
Jesse Bright said he was pulled over on February 26 by the Wilmington Police Department and a deputy from the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office.
Bright is an attorney, but he said he is also an Uber driver. Bright said he was taking a fare on a round trip when he was pulled over near Dawson and 16th streets.
“I explained that I was an Uber driver and that, you know, my passenger, I don’t even know him,” Bright said.
Bright said the Wilmington Police Officer told Bright he had just taken his passenger to a known drug house.
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“Sgt. Becker told me it was illegal to film the police and told me to turn it off or he would take me to jail,” Bright said.
We used to call this “Extortion” a Felony Everywhere.
It proves that members of those 18 teams in this study were lying 85% of the time.
From the article:
Despite the wide legal latitude police dogs are given, there are few studies showing how successful, or unsuccessful, they are at finding drugs in the field.
But what does exist casts doubt on their reliability.
About a month after the results of the UC Davis experiment were released, the Chicago Tribune published a study looking into three years of drug searches by suburban Illinois police departments.
The study revealed that when dogs "alerted" officers to drugs, they were right 44 percent of the time. (Ed: or wrong, 64% of the time) For Hispanic drivers, the rate was only 27 percent.(Ed: or wrong, 73% of the time)
Police told the Tribune that when drugs weren't found, the dogs were detecting drug residue that was left in the vehicles.
But that explanation is bogus, according to Lawrence Myers, an Auburn University professor who has studied police dogs for 30 years.
While residual odors can cause false alerts, Myers said, too many dog handlers often use it as an excuse, making it all but impossible to assess accurately the reliability of the dog's nose or the validity of a search.
"Frankly, many times it's a search warrant on a leash," Myers said of the drug-sniffing police dog.
Nationwide, the K-9 training industry lacks the cohesion and standards that would allow for objective measuring of police dogs' reliability.
Through the Institute for Biological Detection Systems at Auburn University, which Myers founded in 1989, he has researched the effectiveness of drug-sniffing dogs while calling for the industry to improve its training methods and accountability.
For his efforts, he has been shunned by most in the industry, he said.
Fearing they will be blackballed themselves, many K-9 handlers don't speak out about problems they see in the industry, he said.
"I'm afraid there is a conspiracy of silence" within the tight-knit police dog community, Myers said.
The lawsuit illustrates that, he said, with the troopers who spoke of being shunned by fellow troopers and removed from their K-9 handling duties.
Then there is the subliminal cues they can unknowingly give to the dogs. Were I on a jury, I would give zero credence to any "evidence" that came from one of these creatures. A classic case of subliminal cueing is the horse from early in the 20th century that it was claimed could count and do simple math. Turns out, it could do it, but only if it could see it's trainer. The horse apparently noticed expression changes and other cues which told it when to stop when it was doing its 'trick'.
AMEN! My wife and I were victimized by one of these 'K-9's and their bastard handlers a few years ago...
Depends on the state, I think. The dog is still a search in some states, and you need PC for that. With a vehicle, in every state, you have exigent circumstances. If you have PC you can direct the owner to follow you to a precinct until you can properly file for a warrant.
If the judge grants it, you can search. If not, you are massively inconvenienced, but you are free to go.
In all cases, the only words you should utter in any case is ‘lawyer’.
Some states, the blue ones, have blessed check point type stops. Those are massively unconstitutional, of course, because you’re being detained without the state showing cause. You can be asked for your operator license and your registration. Anything else is just fishing for evidence to use against you.
“Why am I being stopped?”
They have to show cause, right there on the spot. Sobriety checks is not cause, and you can then say,
“Am I under arrest?”
If the answer is no, then you can politely explain that you’ll be on your way then. They can’t make you do the check unless the idiots in your state has passed a law saying you do.
If they have, its unconstitutional, and is probably languishing awaiting a review for constitutionalilty somewhere.
Never give them permission to search your care. Make them get the warrant, and they can serve it to your lawyer, who will be present during the search, IF they can get it past a judge.
Buying time is free-ish. The lawyer will cost you.
That’s why they call it an advocacy system, not a justice system.
That the government on all levels has no respect for the fourth and fifth amendment is fact, not conjecture at this point.
Clever Hans the horse was so good he could read the scientist who was testing him and not just his trainer. The scientist had to turn his back.
North Carolina has a real problem with rogue cops.
A few years ago a woman (lawyer) was driving home from a dinner being held by some lawyers’ association. The woman was all dressed up in a fancy dress and high heeled shoes.
The cop stopped her for some reason (maybe a license plate light) and wanted to give her a breathalyzer test. She refused. He decided to arrest her and take her many miles away to some judge. He speeded and went through red lights so her husband couldn’t follow and wouldn’t tell the husband where he was taking her.
Bottom line - they took her blood, she had zero alcohol in her blood. Lawyer and her husband (also a lawyer) tried to publicize the abuse.
Of course the cops are still abusing. Don’t speed or have a broken tail light driving through NC. The stories of abuse are all true.
Soviet Red Hampshire has the same problem with rogue cops and their damned drug dogs...I wonder how many innocent people have been murdered by cops based on ‘evidence’ provided by their eager to please four-footed friends? Maybe I’ll be murdered someday by the police for the CRIME of growing vegetable seedlings in my basement? Woof, woof!
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