The dash cams cops have are the same as hand held cameras by citizens. What if i demand the cops turn off their dash cam. what ever right that gives them to film me also applies to them.
You'll lose that argument every time. Cops have very different rules than citizens. Think you can get unpaid vacation for shooting a cop?
I haven't visited Slashdot since January, when all of that crap with the beta started happening.
So today, after visiting for the first time in six months, I am faced with a damning reality: Slashdot truly is dying.
As I scroll down the front page, I see story after story with fewer than 40 comments. Some have less than 15 comments, even hours after being posted!
This is truly a shame, for we have very few alternatives today. Reddit is full of hipsters of the vilest kind. HN is a haven of abusive moderation, censorship, and Silicon Valley groupthink. Stack Overflow will just close any discussion that isn't a basic jQuery question easily answered by looking at its docs.
I knew it would happen someday, but I am saddened to see that we have come upon that time. Slashdot, once the greatest discussion forum known to mankind, has been decimated. I weep.
It's what happens when you roll the Dice.
The officers involved should be made to pay restitution.
Blood. Turnip. Do the math.
If police malpractice awards come out of the police budget rather than the city council appropriating additional money, they are much more likely to change police behavior.
"Mr. Mayor, we need additional funding to defend our valiant officers or we will be unable to hire enough officers to adequately ensure the public safety; our hands will be tied by you. Will you be the elected official who sacrificed public safety for a few dollars? I thought not." - Police Chief
sometimes on accident..
It's "by accident" (or, as the case may be, "on purpose"). Pet peeve, BTW (primarily due to living among Fundamentalist hicks and imbeciles for the past ten years).
Atheist urbanites and smart people can make the same errors. It's a combination of carelessness and incomplete education.
It obviously didn't and so direct your outrage into action for change. All police departments need a citizen oversight committee stacked with regular folks from the community not members of police officers association. The committee needs full power to review police actions and records and actually fire officers not just make recommendations.
My city has a "citizen oversight committee stacked with regular folks from the community" and for several years, the city "forgot" to convene a meeting. What are the odds that their memory will fail again?
"Before the settlement, the appeals court had kept alive the possibility of a trial because New Hampshire law forbids the recording of police if the authorities order people to disperse for legitimate safety concerns."
So this implies at least they'll have to make up some "legitimate safety concern" which I'm sure they won't have any problem doing.
"There was a legitimate safety concern because the officer believed it to be so, even if he can not describe or recall the threat to safety and eyewitness testimony and physical evidence contradicts his assertions. Case dismissed!"
How it works.
Or to stop someone finding out their son's dead by some moron on YouTube uploading his murder.
Doing that is crass, mean-spirited, morally bankrupt and hateful, but it should not be illegal for those reasons.
If the police orders you to "stop filming" even IF YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO DO SO, you are still not following their orders. This ALSO applies to flight attendants. It doesn't matter ONE LITTLE BIT if the order was proper, you ARE guilty of not following it.
The CURRENT "proper way" of doing this is to follow their orders and then file a complaint at the station about the infringement on your rights. And yes, you won't have your videotaped evidence. And yes, police will likely retaliate. And no, the officer won't be immediately fired with cause. You lose.
It is not illegal to refuse to obey an order that violates the law ("Kill that innocent bystander by order of the police!"), especially one that violates your clearly established Constitutional rights ("Surrender your Constitutional rights or face arrest!").
Yes, you will be arrested and face retaliation, but you should prevail in court. If you don't want the hassle, obey the unlawful order.
That said, there's a time and place for everything.
Any word yet on Clippy?
Should soon start work for that LA basketball team Balmer purchased.
"Is that a three-pointer you're attempting? Can I . .
Which validates the belief that the even version numbers (Vista, Win8) are crap and the odd version numbers (XP, Win7) are better.
Waiting for the inevitable reboot of the franchise.
What is exercised the most becomes the strongest.
Beam me up.
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach
