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What is even the rationale behind that law? Recording cops doesn’t harm them in any way until they start senselessly killing people
Accountability has never really been a thing among cops. Apparently instead of fixing the issue, they think hiding it out of the public view is the way to go.
 
What is even the rationale behind that law? Recording cops doesn’t harm them in any way until they start senselessly killing people

It doesn't prevent recording cops. Here's the rationale stated by a sponsor.

"I agreed to run this bill because there are groups hostile to the police that follow them around to videotape police incidents, and they get dangerously close to potentially violent encounters," Kavanagh wrote, also adding that today's cell phone cameras would still pick up details from eight feet away.

It's not the recording, it's the proximity, that's being addressed.

Apparently there's some vagueness in how some of the wording could be interpreted and that should be looked at which it would seem is at the heart of ACLU/news filings.
 
What is even the rationale behind that law? Recording cops doesn’t harm them in any way until they start senselessly killing people
It makes a constitutionally protected activity a crime.
Time place and manner in turner v driver was never narrowly defined. This could be interesting.
 
Maryland Police Officer Sued for Threatening a 5-Year-Old Boy, County Settles

The fact that the cops were sued over this is ridiculous, and even more ridiculous that there was a settlement. A kid walked out of school, they eventually found him and made the experience unpleasant by yelling at him. They did the right thing, and I doubt he will attempt something like this again. Society has gone too soft and become too lawsuit-happy.
 
https://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/deberry_majority_opinion.pdf

Not a police issue, but seems pretty dumb for taxpayers to pay for both parties of this appeal and pay for the guy’s stay (and at least 3 others, I’m told), when the legislature repealed the statute he was convicted under.

So in Tennessee, by law, if you get commit a crime and the legislature reduces the sentence for that crime before you are sentenced then you get the lesser sentence, but if they make it not a crime at all you get the full sentence.
 
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https://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/deberry_majority_opinion.pdf

Not a police issue, but seems pretty dumb for taxpayers to pay for both parties of this appeal and pay for the guy’s stay (and at least 3 others, I’m told), when the legislature repealed the statute he was convicted under.

So in Tennessee, by law, if you get commit a crime and the legislature reduces the sentence for that crime before you are sentenced then you get the lesser sentence, but if they make it not a crime at all you get the full sentence.
Wow
 
This isn't a race or gender issue. It is a cop issue. These cops feel empowered to do these things because they know that system will protect them.

 


I hate this video. This woman is obviously mentally ill/drugged and the cops keep trying to reason with her like she's a rational human being. We have got to do something different to deal with the mentally ill and drug addicts other than put them back on the streets.
 
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I hate this video. This woman is obviously mentally ill/drugged and the cops keep trying to reason with her like she's a rational human being. We have got to do something different to deal with the mentally ill and drug addicts other than put them back on the streets.

Just curious, what was she being charged with? Was she a killer or rapist or something?
 
Wait till Chicago gets Illinois’ new soft on crime law in affect. No arrests for any misdemeanors and 99% of felonies or bonded holds allowed for anything other than first degree murder, hate crime, and terrorism.
 
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Wait till Chicago gets Illinois’ new soft on crime law in affect. No arrests for any misdemeanors and 99% of felonies or bonded holds allowed for anything other than first degree murder, hate crime, and terrorism.
Hate crimes aren't terrorism yet?
 

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