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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.
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Upcoming Chicago G8 Summit Focuses Attention on Illinois First Amendment Infringement - 03/02/2012 12:20:25 AM 1083 Views
police officiers have nothing to fear fromvideo taping? Sorry Joel but that is pure crap - 03/02/2012 01:01:51 AM 656 Views
There's a simple solution to this - 03/02/2012 02:38:05 AM 596 Views
Yeah, funny how well THAT worked. - 03/02/2012 02:59:17 AM 643 Views
would you take a job where your ever move was captured on tape? - 03/02/2012 02:59:46 AM 685 Views
I'm not asking them to wear them when they go home for the day - 03/02/2012 05:20:42 AM 614 Views
that is just Big Brother for thee but not for me - 03/02/2012 05:45:02 PM 677 Views
This started from the banning of video taping things happening in public - 03/02/2012 08:22:22 PM 625 Views
There are lots of jobs like that - 03/02/2012 06:19:21 AM 641 Views
and how many of those cameras are controlled by activist looking to smear them? - 03/02/2012 05:35:32 PM 720 Views
Isn't this already the case with many police officers / departments? - 03/02/2012 01:02:25 PM 553 Views
As joel pointed those cameras have off switches - 03/02/2012 06:02:51 PM 667 Views
I have a job that does that. *NM* - 03/02/2012 04:37:44 PM 225 Views
a lot of jobs monitor and area but very an individual to wear a camera *NM* - 03/02/2012 05:47:59 PM 230 Views
Movie projectionists do. *NM* - 04/02/2012 12:20:21 AM 180 Views
i can't tell if you're making a point or just stupid.... - 03/02/2012 02:42:11 AM 579 Views
The pepper spraying? That is the best you can do? - 03/02/2012 02:54:43 AM 839 Views
OK I see the problem and it is rampant ignorance - 03/02/2012 04:33:47 AM 663 Views
I think we could find a middle ground - 03/02/2012 06:06:32 AM 551 Views
I can sign on for all of that. - 03/02/2012 06:57:54 AM 651 Views
I agree there should be some middle ground - 03/02/2012 05:26:33 PM 582 Views
unfortunately most cops seem to want a double standard - 03/02/2012 02:39:01 AM 575 Views
Ah; I did not realize the SCOTUS had overturned that. - 03/02/2012 03:05:12 AM 527 Views
9-0 decision -- where were you? - 03/02/2012 06:53:56 AM 620 Views
Um, Norway? - 03/02/2012 07:08:11 AM 597 Views
Well, public or private, one does not leave one's right to privacy at the door - 03/02/2012 05:19:12 PM 557 Views
That is an unnervingly good point. - 03/02/2012 07:13:48 PM 595 Views

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