Isn't this already the case with many police officers / departments?
Macharius Send a noteboard - 03/02/2012 01:02:25 PM
If it weren't, we wouldn't have all those wonderful TV shows about "world's dumbest criminals" and "wildest car chases 7". The footage is usually taken from either dashboard- or shoulder-mounted video cameras. If the police have cameras of everything they do while on the job, it's tremendous protection for them against accusations of abuse of power, etc. How easy would it have been for the police to shut down the pepper-spray criticism you mentioned if they can show the entire footage instead of a narrowly edited clib devoid of context?
Regardless, I have to agree with moondog that law enforcement can't have it both ways: "public acces precludes any expectation of privacy" means, at the same time as allowing warrantless GPS tracking, that videotaping the police as public workers in a public venue and acting in an official capacity is (or should be) constitionally protected. After all, the constitution was created specifically to protect citizens from the abuse of government.
Regardless, I have to agree with moondog that law enforcement can't have it both ways: "public acces precludes any expectation of privacy" means, at the same time as allowing warrantless GPS tracking, that videotaping the police as public workers in a public venue and acting in an official capacity is (or should be) constitionally protected. After all, the constitution was created specifically to protect citizens from the abuse of government.
Upcoming Chicago G8 Summit Focuses Attention on Illinois First Amendment Infringement
- 03/02/2012 12:20:25 AM
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police officiers have nothing to fear fromvideo taping? Sorry Joel but that is pure crap
- 03/02/2012 01:01:51 AM
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There's a simple solution to this
- 03/02/2012 02:38:05 AM
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would you take a job where your ever move was captured on tape?
- 03/02/2012 02:59:46 AM
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I have had two, that I recall off the top of my head; SOME of us are NOT too good for some jobs.
- 03/02/2012 03:11:29 AM
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- 03/02/2012 03:11:29 AM
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yes so we would end up with people like you as cops, thanks for making my point
- 03/02/2012 04:09:54 AM
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So if your point is invalid the problem is me; glad to see you are being objective here.
- 03/02/2012 04:23:03 AM
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- 03/02/2012 04:23:03 AM
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If there were mobs of anger idiots looking set up situation where you could be defaimed
- 03/02/2012 04:50:36 AM
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If it makes you feel better, Rod Blagojevich agrees context ALWAYS exonerates ANYTHING.
- 03/02/2012 07:24:55 AM
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I'm not asking them to wear them when they go home for the day
- 03/02/2012 05:20:42 AM
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that is just Big Brother for thee but not for me
- 03/02/2012 05:45:02 PM
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This started from the banning of video taping things happening in public
- 03/02/2012 08:22:22 PM
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There are lots of jobs like that
- 03/02/2012 06:19:21 AM
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and how many of those cameras are controlled by activist looking to smear them?
- 03/02/2012 05:35:32 PM
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Isn't this already the case with many police officers / departments?
- 03/02/2012 01:02:25 PM
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Yes and no; in many cases they can and do turn off the cameras when it suits them.
- 03/02/2012 02:33:32 PM
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I have a job that does that. *NM*
- 03/02/2012 04:37:44 PM
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a lot of jobs monitor and area but very an individual to wear a camera *NM*
- 03/02/2012 05:47:59 PM
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Write a sentence that can be understood and maybe I'll reply with something relevant. *NM*
- 04/02/2012 04:57:27 PM
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i can't tell if you're making a point or just stupid....
- 03/02/2012 02:42:11 AM
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luck for my job isn't so hard. Judging you as stupid is an easy call
- 03/02/2012 03:46:12 AM
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The pepper spraying? That is the best you can do?
- 03/02/2012 02:54:43 AM
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OK I see the problem and it is rampant ignorance
- 03/02/2012 04:33:47 AM
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I think we could find a middle ground
- 03/02/2012 06:06:32 AM
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I agree there should be some middle ground
- 03/02/2012 05:26:33 PM
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Um, HELLO, it is a felony for journalists to tape police in IL, too.
- 03/02/2012 07:16:15 PM
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That is definitely the problem, though casting aspersions on everyone you can think of hurts, too.
- 03/02/2012 06:55:30 AM
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unfortunately most cops seem to want a double standard
- 03/02/2012 02:39:01 AM
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Ah; I did not realize the SCOTUS had overturned that.
- 03/02/2012 03:05:12 AM
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Well, public or private, one does not leave one's right to privacy at the door
- 03/02/2012 05:19:12 PM
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