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Are Cameras the New Guns?
Gizmodo.com ^
| 6/2/2010
| Wendy McElroy
Posted on 06/03/2010 6:59:40 AM PDT by RoseyT
In response to a flood of Facebook and YouTube videos that depict police abuse, a new trend in law enforcement is gaining popularity. In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer. Even if the encounter involves you and may be necessary to your defense, and even if the recording is on a public street where no expectation of privacy exists.
The legal justification for arresting the "shooter" rests on existing wiretapping or eavesdropping laws, with statutes against obstructing law enforcement sometimes cited. Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland are among the 12 states in which all parties must consent for a recording to be legal unless, as with TV news crews, it is obvious to all that recording is underway. Since the police do not consent, the camera-wielder can be arrested. Most all-party-consent states also include an exception for recording in public places where "no expectation of privacy exists" (Illinois does not) but in practice this exception is not being recognized.
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To: GraceG
41
posted on
06/03/2010 4:53:24 PM PDT
by
fanfan
(Why did they bury Barry's past?)
To: RoseyT
So they (governments, businesses, basically anyone that can afford a camera) can photograph us, private citizens, because we’re in public and have no expectation, but we can’t photograph them even though they’re public employees.
42
posted on
06/03/2010 4:57:59 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: bike800
We *need* you. We *need* good police officers who understand the law and freedom.
43
posted on
06/03/2010 5:07:54 PM PDT
by
cizinec
To: itsahoot
“Not until the Court says it is, probably not in our lifetime either.”
With the rapidity of our degradation, I’m not sure it will have time to make it to the court.
44
posted on
06/03/2010 5:10:51 PM PDT
by
cizinec
To: Tublecane
“Nice way to alienate your constituents.”
Jury nullification is a good route to take. When in doubt vote for the citizen, especially in police brutality cases.
To: RoseyT
“...Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland...”
Cutting edge experts in Soviet governance. Lefties love police abuse as long as they are in power to control who gets abused.
To: G Larry
Or stream the video and let anybody else record and post as they wish.
47
posted on
06/03/2010 7:07:55 PM PDT
by
Sgt_Schultze
(A half-truth is a complete lie)
To: RoseyT
Same should be true of recording devices used by a officers.
Cuts both ways.
48
posted on
06/03/2010 7:08:45 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: ClearCase_guy
What are you looking for? LOL /s
49
posted on
06/03/2010 7:09:13 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: RoseyT
Illinois, Massachusetts and Maryland...home states of Obama, Dick Durbin, Barnie Frank, Teddy Kennedy, Elijah Cummings and Steny Hoyer. What's the surprise?
50
posted on
06/03/2010 7:09:36 PM PDT
by
JrsyJack
(a healthy dose of buckshot will probably get you the last word in any argument.)
To: bamahead; RoseyT
To: ClearCase_guy
- but if everyone has a printing press (if everyone can create media) then the First Amendment starts to lose some luster for the political establishment.That's because they can't control the press if the press is all of us!
52
posted on
06/03/2010 9:03:19 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Waco taught me everything I needed to know about the character of the U.S. Government.)
To: a fool in paradise
Those cameras are not working or the tapes are lost sometimes when the tapes dont back up the officers stories.These days, if such a claim is made by police, and I were on a jury, I would assume that nothing the officers said could be trusted.
53
posted on
06/03/2010 9:13:42 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Waco taught me everything I needed to know about the character of the U.S. Government.)
To: RoseyT; Travis McGee
Surveillance for thee but not for me ping
54
posted on
06/03/2010 9:14:33 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Still Thinking
Exactly. Mega surveillance of the peons by the police is just great. But don't dare record us in action!
55
posted on
06/04/2010 3:55:26 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
56
posted on
06/04/2010 10:17:46 PM PDT
by
Clinging Bitterly
(We need to limit political office holders to two terms. One in office, and one in prison.)
To: VeniVidiVici
57
posted on
06/04/2010 10:47:22 PM PDT
by
Total Package
(TOLEDO, OHIO THE MRSA INFECTION IN THE STATE and the death of freedom)
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