Posted on 06/08/2012 6:37:29 AM PDT by marktwain
Illinois has attempted to make it illegal to do so. It is being challenged in the courts.
If you’re filming cops:
Leave the area, before they get to you.
SEND the photos to others not in the area.
If questioned, you’re not obligated to “know” how to delete pics.
Police just want to go home safe to their families when their shift is over.
Crooked LEO ping.
He fell for their bluff. A good lawyer with knowledge of the other deletions, would have that cop's ass for lunch.
A desire that has zero to do with what happened here, nor does it justify this.
Everyone who commits a crime wants to supress the evidence and go home afterwards.
Big whoop.
Short of real national security, how could it be illegal to video or photograph anything in public, especially involving persons who work for us?
This photo/video thing along with cops eagerly shooting homeowners dogs and “Black Ops” military style ineptness are the more conspicuous reasons citizens really no longer place much trust LEO.
Horsecrap
Instead of going to prison like many of the officers involved in this case should have. Convictions for destruction of evidence, false imprisonment, perjury and probably more than a handful of RICO offenses should have been passed out to the cops involved. And that's on top of the original traffic offense.
Police are going to have to get used to the idea that their every action will be recorded. More and more people will have recording devices and as memory becomes more and more available I wouldn't be surprised to see some cameras being clothing or head mounted being able to record all day. I do expect the police to start asking manufacturers to install some type of override, so if the police are blinking a certain IR signal the camera will stop recording, but hopefully people will be able to stop that or at least get cameras that will ignore that signal.
Officer safety is the most important thing ... in the world.
What does it take for you to recognize sarcasm?
A neon sign?
I know my daughter can take a picture and send it or post it in what seems like half a second.
As far as I can recall, there has never been a case in which the courts failed to rule against the police in this. It’s a pretty clear-cut 1st Amendment case. These cops haven’t a leg to stand on.
Just the crooked 99% making a bad name for all the rest of the good cops.
There are quite a few of the cop sniffers here on FR who would have said "Police just want to go home safe to their families when their shift is over" without the slightest bit of sarcasm. At least most have them have stopped trying to justify why chihuahuas need to be shot.
As an outside (and hopefully objective) observer to this exchange, I think it’s safe to say there are enough police apologists on this forum to make such a qualifier necessary. I have seen similar statements by folks who actually meant what they posted. :)
Can’t tell you how many times those sniffers have come after me in here. I’m no kid. I’m soon to be 58. I can remember when cops were trusted. Now what are they? An arm of the government. Unionistas. In it for themselves. Of course that’s not every officer but it’s way too many.
I would be suspicious if a cop said hello to me. Don’t trust them at all.
Yes, email or post the vids/photos you took online, and if you can, lock the phone with a password before handing it over to a LEO. You are not obligated to give them your password so they can mess around with your phone.
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