Posted on 10/21/2004 2:11:32 PM PDT by TFine80
SEN. KERRY: Now, you know, here in Washington, if Jay Leno isn't working for you, you can switch quickly over to -- I think it's Channel 5 -- and pick up cops running around with people at night, you know, intruding into homes, arresting, people crying, all these kinds of things that seem to titillate. Why are our cops being allowed to do that? I mean, there is an amazing amount of cooperation in the making of that. Why, if it is not good, are they permitted to allow these people to follow them into the homes and everywhere else?
ATTY GEN. RENO: That's one of the first issues I addressed when I took office because I had made it a practice to avoid such situations like that in Miami and I've taken steps to try to make sure that the department complies with the thought that police should not be -- or at least agents of the department should not be involved in such efforts.
SEN. KERRY: I know you can't mandate it with respect to all local police, et cetera, but have you taken some kind of step with the Police Chiefs Association and others around the country?
Well, I guess THAT explains a lot. Too bad Dave Barry is taking it easy. He would have a field day with that one.
I wonder if FOX knows about this. Don't they show new episodes of COPS?
The cameraman enters the home of suspects under guise of color of authority. I wonder if the producer offers cash to the homeowner to show the video.
You'd think at one time it would have been unconstitutional, but hell, I watched a LAPD episode on Reality TV where a druggie was cited for having a "hardened front door" which wouldn't allow police easy entry. Go figure.
That might explain the comedy channel show Reno 911.
HAHAHAHAH!! I remember that episode!
If they would only go out recording people in the urban areas of Ohio and Florida on Nov 2, they would have probably have material enough to last through 2005, what with all the vote fraud and intimmidation and all.
I see Johnny Edwards as the guy in the short, short pants on Reno 911.
I see Johnny Edwards as the guy in the short, short pants on Reno 911.
I liked it a lot better before they started doing prostitution entrapments every week with smug cops acting like they're TV comics.
BTW-Everything Reno ever did in Miami has been discredited. Yet, she still cites her service there! Just goes to show that she really is as delusional as we all suspected.
If true, this is the first (and only) reason to vote for Kerry.
I'm sure that's exactly what happens. But it's wrong - the cameraman is clearly trespassing. Depending on where you are, most homeowners can eject trespassers with force. You'd think at one time it would have been unconstitutional, but hell, I watched a LAPD episode on Reality TV where a druggie was cited for having a "hardened front door" which wouldn't allow police easy entry. Go figure.
I know - in either L.A. or L.A. County it is illegal to have armored doors. Clearly wrong since any door the cops can break down a criminal can also break down. I think as a matter of practice they only enforce it against drug houses - kind of like getting Capone for tax evasion.
Look at this quotation from Kerry about crime and terrorism from 1996:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1250788/posts
I see Johnny Edwards as the guy in the short, short pants on Reno 911.
Lt. Dangle lol
Bill Hicks is rolling over in his grave.
Though I haven't seen an episode of Cops filmed in Utah, if I found myself in that situation, I'd tell the cameraman he's trespassing, and should he not vacate the property (not even the house) immediately, I'd notify an officer that a crime is being committed. That's the calm solution, and I'm sure the kinds of folks they show on the program are either not in a state of mind to do such, or have no idea that they have certain rights. Makes one wonder just what ends up on the cutting room floor.
If Bubba finds out Kerry would ban "Cops", he's toast. "Cops" is to the battleground states, as "The Rocky Mountain Horror Show is to Druggies." Spread this to every nook and valley!! The only thing worse would be Kerry wanting to ban beer and 4 wheelers.
I think as a matter of practice they only enforce it against drug houses
I'm sure they would make an exception for a non-drug house if you annoyed them. Thats the problem when everything is against the law and those laws are selectively enforced.
See for example the asset forfeiture laws. In this case it isn't whether you annoy them, only whether they like your assets enough to take them.
I've heard people say things like "get that camera out of here" and the cops did nothing - but that might have been 'on the street' where a cameraman can certainly be with or without objection by the alleged perp. In my house the cameraman would get precisely one request before his expensive camera was trashed. I seriously doubt they could do anything about it.
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