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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 953 Views
police officiers have nothing to fear fromvideo taping? Sorry Joel but that is pure crap - 03/02/2012 01:01:51 AM 528 Views
There's a simple solution to this - 03/02/2012 02:38:05 AM 475 Views
Yeah, funny how well THAT worked. - 03/02/2012 02:59:17 AM 519 Views
would you take a job where your ever move was captured on tape? - 03/02/2012 02:59:46 AM 560 Views
I'm not asking them to wear them when they go home for the day - 03/02/2012 05:20:42 AM 494 Views
that is just Big Brother for thee but not for me - 03/02/2012 05:45:02 PM 567 Views
This started from the banning of video taping things happening in public - 03/02/2012 08:22:22 PM 504 Views
There are lots of jobs like that - 03/02/2012 06:19:21 AM 520 Views
and how many of those cameras are controlled by activist looking to smear them? - 03/02/2012 05:35:32 PM 593 Views
Isn't this already the case with many police officers / departments? - 03/02/2012 01:02:25 PM 434 Views
As joel pointed those cameras have off switches - 03/02/2012 06:02:51 PM 555 Views
I have a job that does that. *NM* - 03/02/2012 04:37:44 PM 185 Views
a lot of jobs monitor and area but very an individual to wear a camera *NM* - 03/02/2012 05:47:59 PM 187 Views
Movie projectionists do. *NM* - 04/02/2012 12:20:21 AM 134 Views
i can't tell if you're making a point or just stupid.... - 03/02/2012 02:42:11 AM 465 Views
The pepper spraying? That is the best you can do? - 03/02/2012 02:54:43 AM 698 Views
OK I see the problem and it is rampant ignorance - 03/02/2012 04:33:47 AM 541 Views
I think we could find a middle ground - 03/02/2012 06:06:32 AM 425 Views
I can sign on for all of that. - 03/02/2012 06:57:54 AM 542 Views
I agree there should be some middle ground - 03/02/2012 05:26:33 PM 475 Views
unfortunately most cops seem to want a double standard - 03/02/2012 02:39:01 AM 451 Views
Ah; I did not realize the SCOTUS had overturned that. - 03/02/2012 03:05:12 AM 402 Views
9-0 decision -- where were you? - 03/02/2012 06:53:56 AM 515 Views
Um, Norway? - 03/02/2012 07:08:11 AM 472 Views
Well, public or private, one does not leave one's right to privacy at the door - 03/02/2012 05:19:12 PM 432 Views
That is an unnervingly good point. - 03/02/2012 07:13:48 PM 479 Views

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