Community | February 07, 2012 | 4 comments

If You See Something, Film Something (Recording The Police is a Dangerous but Necessary Thing to Do)

source: http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxlL0I5AWLI&feature=player_embedded

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This video was created as an example of the importance of filming the police. Video provides transparency, accountability, and an accurate account of incidents that occur. It is no secret that the United States has a serious problem with police abuse, brutality, and corruption. It is essential for civilians to document their encounters with police officers to ensure transparency, accountability, and safety to all of those involved.

Police departments have, for too long, tried to bully, intimidate, threaten, arrest, or otherwise harass law abiding citizens from recording the activities of law enforcement in public. Enough is enough! It is time for all of us to take a stand and expose police brutality when we witness it. Even if the officers behavior is correct, and justifiable, we still encourage the recording of the police activities for the transparency and accountability that is desperately needed in many departments.

If you see something, film something, the freedom of press begins with you!



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4 comments // If You See Something, Film Something (Recording The Police is a Dangerous but Necessary Thing to Do) // Video

  • MotherForTruth
  • Crauly_Fingers
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      Crauly_Fingers  

    • Power whores!When cameras are outlawed, only outlaws will have cameras.At least two states – Massachusetts and Illinois – make it illegal to record any on-duty police officer in any situation. It doesn't matter if the officer is in the process of beating someone to death. It doesn't matter if the recording is in your own home, and the police have just busted down your door even in an illegal search. If you record the interaction, you can go to prison.

      In ten other states, "all parties" must consent in order for a private person to make a recording of a conversation or personal encounter. Since a police officer acting abusively isn't likely to give you permission to record the event, if you do so, you could be violating the wiretap statute – and be subject to a long unfortunate prison sentence.

      In Illinois,a street artist recorded his own arrest for selling artwork without a peddler's license. He now faces up to 15 years in prison for the recording.

      Arresting police whistleblowers is a nationwide trend. And the courts approve. For instance, the Massachusetts Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a man arrested for recording a police encounter.The defendant Michael Hyde used the recording to file a harassment complaint against police. Instead, he was convicted of illegal wiretapping. While he was sentenced to only six months of probation, he could have faced a much longer prison term.

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