It is hard to enforce your rights when you do not know the law.
Good for these stories to get out there. They make it more likely that police will think twice about making stuff up.
Cops don’t know laws?
Who’d have thunk that?
Situations like this and road rage are exactly why I have a dash cam.
Good report, gopno1.
I guess most officers take so much guff, and are on the edge because they could be attacked any second, might tend to overreact at times.
If the report was accurate, it sounds like the Uber driver wasn’t trying to be a wise guy, but was being respectful.
I am thankful for our cops, but wouldn’t want to be one. It can be a pretty thankless line of work.
It's not the questionable searches that bother me. It's the planted evidence.
...an officer was caught on camera incorrectly telling an Uber driver that it’s illegal to record a traffic stop....
I believe it’s called lying.
Scrotus didn’t help stating that cops don’t have to know the laws they are apparently enforcing, either. Now they can either outright lie, and also be genuinely incorrect about the law, and they are untouchable.
And look at whst the cop did after the guy showed his legal credential.
Out of spite he had a k9 unit tear apart the car.
I had an out of control cop bark at me once telling me “you need to” do so and so.
I looked at his badge and name, and asked him to clarify. “Are you ordering me to” do so and so?
He backed off and then said he thought I should do what he was suggesting.
Fortunately I had just spoken to an attorney who told me what a police officer should and should not tell me to do.
On the other hand, it is usually better to cooperate with police as much as is possible. They have a tough job and never know if someone might, at any moment, take an action that is life threatening. Just routine traffic stops are very dangerous.
One time a family member got wrongly cited for a traffic violation. The posted speed limit was different on one side of an undivided highway than the other. He did a U-turn and wrote a ticket based on the wrong speed limit.
I documented this with photos and video which we presented to the court.
The cop contradicted himself under oath to the point that the DA turned and looked at him skeptically and asked if he wanted to change his testimony.
This stuff often just gets rubber stamped by the courts because they don’t have enough time in the day to get through it all.
Well .. I know that in some jurisdictions, if a person has been told they are under arrest; they can no longer be taking pictures of the officers.
And .. in other jurisdictions, if you have told a person they are under arrest; an officer is allowed to tell untruths to the arrested person.
Just the same as when a person is being interviewed for possible connection to a crime at a police station; there is no obligation of the police to be truthful to the person being interviewed.
We may hot like it .. but it’s usually for the purpose of getting the interviewee to admit to complicity in a crime, or knowing of criminal activity.
I like police. I am pro police. Police bullying tactics of honest citizens not committing crimes make me not like police. Police shooting dogs make me not like police.
A lot of people hate the police. They can’t afford to alienate honest iddle class people like us. They are too often skating on thin ice. It is stupid.
It is like they tell us, “What is the problem if you have nothing to hide.” If police are being recorded in the honest commission of their duties, what is the problem if they have nothing to hide.
This bullying is just stupid.