[thefactor]

you're absolutely right. and good cops should WELCOME video to a certain extent.

my point with this kid is that he makes a game out of it and uses a police scanner to go to places he knows he will get stopped so he can wise-off to cops. but, in his mind, the cops made him what he is. we have agitator's too. i just smile and nod and go about doing my job. i'm hoping to see myself on youtube one day.

[tacticalogic]

I saw the video. All he had of the officer was audio. He said he mounted the camera after he got a speeding ticket he thought he didn’t deserve, and the camera was mounted pointed at the instrument cluster on his dash, not at the window.

[snarkybob]

“my point with this kid is that he makes a game out of it and uses a police scanner to go to places he knows he will get stopped so he can wise-off to cops. but, in his mind, the cops made him what he is. we have agitator’s too. i just smile and nod and go about doing my job. i’m hoping to see myself on youtube one day.”

Well, if that is in fact what he’s doing, it worked in this case. I view him the same as any other advocate, like those online stings to catch child predators.

Smiling and nodding and doing a professional job is what you should do.

[Starwolf]

Where did you read that he uses a scanner to troll cops? All that has been said is that this is not the first bozo with a badge that he has caught on tape.

[tacticalogic]

but, in his mind, the cops made him what he is. we have agitator's too. i just smile and nod and go about doing my job. i'm hoping to see myself on youtube one day.

Okay, you've got some agitators. Now tell me some of the assholes they've had to deal with don't have anything to do with them being that way.

[tpaine]

-- this kid is a professional agitator. this is not his first video. he drives around looking to get messed with and give an attitude.

You ever consider that he [or others] had been 'messed with' before?
-- Cops that mess with people are on the way out, thanks to recorders, and the 'agitators' they enable. -- And rational people won't miss that type of police work.

my point with this kid is that he makes a game out of it and uses a police scanner to go to places he knows he will get stopped so he can wise-off to cops. but, in his mind, the cops made him what he is.

Exactly. Bad cops "made him what he is" by messing with him. -- Now, he's "messing" with them.

Dangerous 'game'; - on both sides.
I can understand the kids motives.
- But why do cops want to 'mess with' citizens?

[pray4liberty]

i'm hoping to see myself on youtube one day.

You will be, if you're cute. :)