Disabling of a recording device by police should be automatically considered criminal intent.
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No consent is needed. He’s on private property owned by the person filming, and is a public employee. What he did (altering somebody else’s property) is simple vandalism.
“I’m a cop, I can do whatever I want”. The existence of many videos of police misbehavior obviously makes cameras the enemy…
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Have a look at Swann products. Theirs are wired instead of wireless, record to a DVR inside your own home, and can alert you and be viewed remotely on your mobile phone.
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Welcome to BoingBoing!
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Corruption flourishes when there is no accountability. If policemen faced the same consequence for having a healthy individual die under their watch as doctors, it would be a good start.
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Well, I don’t recall the last time I heard of a beekeeper or a Kindergarten teacher killing someone on the job, but it’s certainly not happening once a week, soooo, no, they’re not all the same.
Also, in case you aren’t aware, cops fought for the right to self-select for low IQs:
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why a beekeeper and a kindergarten teacher vandalized my doorbell camera together just this morning
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Good thing I uploaded the video first
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This isn’t about individuals as “good” or “bad” people… it’s about systems of oppression that disproportional hurts Black and Brown Americans. Policing and the legal system in the US is a key part of that system of oppression. Even when LEOs attempt to do the right thing, they are often driven out of the profession for doing so.
And in this case, as @Melizmatic pointed out, the corruption is part of the historical structure of policing in America.
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14 second clip shows why no-one can trust cops
out of context, no it doesn’t.
we dont know the context. we dont know why he was called to the house.
if he suspects any hostile action, its probably smart for him to not have eyeballs
monitoring everything he is doing.
Good point. For all we know he was carrying a birthday cake behind his back and didn’t want to spoil the surprise.
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This thread and some of the ‘rationale’ being applied in the comments, though:
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What possible context could there be where it would be reasonable for a cop to hide their actions?
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No, but cops don’t have accountability, and we don’t know just by looking who is a good cop or a bad cop, so, in the absence of accountability, we can’t really trust any of them.
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Right?!?
An armed man walked up onto my stoop and disabled my security camera, period. (Not my stoop, thankfully)
Why is he a special class of citizen because he’s a cop?
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