A Downloadable Flyer Explaining Your Rights When Stopped or Confronted for Photography (^)
Download it, print it, keep it.
Share it with law enforcement if it comes to it.
I will say that in all the time I've been a photographer, I've never been bothered, stopped or questioned.
Why not keep a copy of the Constitution for their perusal instead?
I’ve had neighbors on my street ask me why I was carrying a camera around (like I was carrying a shotgun or something) and when I said “I like taking pictures” they said “some folks might not like that,” as if to say “I don’t like that.”
Thanks for posting this. I printed it out.
It is interesting to me, that many if not most of these new “police-state-like” confrontations seem to occur in very urban, very politically liberal areas of the country—not in the stereotypical rural sheriffs’ domain.
It’s like the cops are used to such chaos...they are also used to bending the law just to keep order—hence lawlessness begets police-lawlessness.