Posted on 07/06/2013 9:23:21 AM PDT by rickmichaels
” I have seen people honk, yell or fidget at a DUI checkpoint get pulled aside immideatly.”
Who cares? Is honking, yelling, or fidgeting a crime?
I think what you would need, to do that with standalone cameras is:
* a wireless capable, IP-enabled camera (common with modern security cameras designed to connect to a DVR system)
* an cellular internet connection in your vehicle - either through a phone, or through a portable computer with a cellular internet connection.
* a wireless router to set up a network so your IP cameras can connect to the internet through your cellular internet connection
* a cloud service account to store the transmitted video
That’s a lot of rigamarole to set up in a vehicle, especially if you want it to be inconspicuous. Seems there is a vacant niche in the market for some entrepreneur to consolidate that into a single system.
Agreed except, (1) close up the car tightly and (2) bide your time in acquiring a court order to search. Seriously, if you have no reason to give-up your rights (you haven’t been smoking/drinking), make them prove their position. I chafe against those who say, “If you aren’t guilty, let them search.” The stasi-LEO count on this attitude.
In consideration is will LEO wait for 4 hours at 02:00 for a judge to issue a warrant based on the fleeting thought that “I have a 50/50 chance of getting an arrested?”
That’s why I say...wait them out. A right given-up is a right you never wanted to protect.
Your papers please.
“for a traffic stop like this they would find the laptop and router when they searched”
I don’t think that would be a very big deal, because your average cop will have no idea of the implications of a laptop and router set up like that. After a few of their brothers got busted, the word would get around, but for now, they wouldn’t think twice seeing those items in a vehicle.
Little tin god syndrome is rampant in our law enforcement officials because there is never any personal price for their abusive unconstitutional actions. Suing the cop and their agency only results in more tax money being spent on trying to defending them. If you ever noticed, most of these kinds of cases get tossed by the judge and everybody but the victimized citizen is happy.
Multiply by 10,000 times a day and you have Obama’s Amerika.
“not going through a checkpoint is not probably cause to be stopped”
Unless you don’t turn around in a safe and legal manner. If they are crafty with where they set up the checkpoint, they can pretty much force you to either go through the checkpoint, or try to make an illegal maneuver to avoid it, which would give them probably cause.
It seems from some of the other posts that there are options for this, but that wasn’t my point. My point was to tell them that it was, they don’t know the difference one way or the other, but it puts them in a position.
“law enforcement motto used to be; To protect and to serve. Now it’s; to serve our public official masters to control, intimidate and abuse the citizen.”
My version of their new motto is “To Taze Until They Comply”, short and sweet.
And my point was that they probably could figure it out pretty quickly.
One of the best techniques I have ever heard was this girl picked up a card of the president of the ACLU and when pulled over she would not comply with the officers demands and would hand them the card and say, my dad is the president of the ACLU and told me to never answer your questions. I am more scared of him than I am of you... they let her go....
I love that one.
but two sad things come to mind. the police would be more afraid of the aclu, than some Christian organization.
also, do you think if the driver in the video were an African american female the officer would have treated her the same? I doubt it.
I got in a fender bender with a Haitian woman and when the police came she was waving her hands and screaming because it was a new car. the cops were kissing her Haitian ass. I asked a couple questions and thy looked at me like I was an insect.
What is needed is a real time broadcast cellphone device that when activated goes right to a recording to your attorney’s computer. If and when he sees anything that is improper, he calls the police department, identifies himself, advises them that he has witnessed and video and audio recorded their officers violating the law at this checkpoint, and to notify them to suspend their activities immediately.
Well, this young fella caught these deputies half-stepping and they proceeded to violate his civil rights, shame on them.
I will show this video around my agency reaffirming that this is the complete opposite of department policy and what is legal.
I understand what this youngster is going through; I went through and illegal checkpoint last night conducted by a neighboring agency and I mean to have it shut down in the future, to include reporting it to the FBI if thats what it takes.
No. However bringing unneeded attention to yourself at a DUI checkpoint probably is a red flag.
I prosecuted a guy once who was so drunk that he pulled into a weigh station on I-95, hopped out, and demanded they weigh him.
I respect you, Jeff, but don’t agree with you this time. The officer escalated this immediately when not given sufficient homage, and got that “thwarted authority” attitude, determining to punish this young man for not obeying whatever he said to do.
A “scheduled” check point that they never even bothered to check at. Not one mention of drinking or why they wanted him pulled over at all. Not one point.
Meh, I think you probably give them more credit for tech savvy than I do.
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