My favourite part is that the photographerâs editor, who stormed down to the police department to complain about all this, is a Mr. Anger: Paul Anger. One hopes that he says his name in the James Bond manner: âBondâŚJames Bondâ.
Stealing the SIM is a pretty impressive act of incompetence. Contains none of the data you wanted to suppress, is globally unique and can be trivially confirmed as belonging to a given party by the issuing telco(unless itâs a prepaid burner SIM; but Iâve never seen a company phone issued on those terms).
I know they donât call them âpigsâ out of deference to their superior intellect and deep cunning; but are there actually people in the developed world who still havenât heard that iPhones donât have removable storage?
Taking her phone and arresting her was police ordinary-stupid-arrogant. Iâm impressed with the management response to this, though. I think itâs sensible to investigate to make sure how it went down, but they made some good strong statements about their policy, the law, and taking this seriously.
are there actually people in the developed world who still havenât heard that iPhones donât have removable storage?
I raise my hand without shame. Why would I know that? I donât have one & have never poked into one.
You know what, fuck these guys. LAYOFFS! Mass layoffs! Then they can join the rest of folks looking for a job.
No worries, Detroit is preparing to enter bankruptcy proceedings. The appointed Emergency Manager is currently in negotiations with the cityâs creditors. Once the filing takes place, Iâd expect a mass exodus of emergency services personnel.
The most shocking thing to me about this story is that they cared enough to even try to supress the video. Normally, Detroit cops are pretty fucking busy with more important things, like murdering little girls on a wrong-house raid and covering up the mayorâs illegal shit. This is more petty than weâre used to hearing out of the department.
Seems a knee-jerk response. I didnât see them doing anything in the original arrest that they wouldnât want seen anyway. Seemed calm and professional. (Although I desperately wanted them to pull the dudeâs pants up. Maybe it was a crime against decency he had comitted when getting dressed that morning.)
Perhaps the officer knew his actions would result in;
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getting the rest of the summer off while suspended with pay.
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getting a slap on the wrist and retraining.
âŚand, apparently have no contingeny plan to suppress evidence on one.
no contingeny plan to suppress evidence on one
Hm. More discreet than just putting it in a blender; with whatâs likely to be at hand at the police station; against ordinary recovery, not FBI ⌠Hitting the sync cable socket with the cut ends of an extension cord comes to mind. Short shot in a microwave. Open it up and hit it with a little bit of a cleaner that has plenty of lye. My son killed a Blackberry by drenching it in bubble soap, rinsing it while it was turned on, then hiding it for a day.
âThis wonât work anymore, but boy, it is clean!â
And it smelled nice, too.
Well, this doesnât bode will for the future of Omni Consumer Products.
Quite the opposite. All of the cityâs assets may soon be on the market, including contracts to privately run the various departments. We donât know exactly how nakedly libetarian it all could end up being at this point.
My hat is off to those brave Americans who are willing to risk a trumped-up arrest in order to protect our civil-liberties.
But man, oh man, an NCIC arrest record is an utterly indelible, follow-you-everywhere-for-the-rest-of-your-life electronic Scarlet Letter. An arrest record is available to any employer willing to pay for a background check, and itâs an immensely powerful tool for a single police officer to utterly â and without any accountability whatsoever â ruin your life simply by arresting you on bogus charges, even if the charges are dropped a couple hours later.
Itâs the kind of thing that you used to read about in stories from East Germany, where annoying a single government agent could get you black-listed for life. Except itâs here in America, right now, for real.
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