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<blockquote data-quote="Gadsden" data-source="post: 3911119" data-attributes="member: 49555"><p>I agree with recording/live-streaming a police contact. As long as they are not interfering with the officer I don't have any problem with that. Hell, I was recorded more times than I can count. It never bothered me because I knew wasn't doing anything illegal or unethical. Later, when we got body cams, which added to what our dash cams were capturing, I was recording myself as well as the people I was contacting. Unlike some officers, whose reasoning I won't speculate on, I was happy with the advent of dash cams as well as body cams. They helped me in more then one case to prove the accusations being levied against me were lies.</p><p></p><p>Personal tragedies (and yes I know this wasn't the topic of the thread), like traffic accidents etc are a totally different thing though and considering many of the people recording incidents like I'm referring to don't have much besides their phone (hell some are homeless) good luck with a civil suit. Like the saying says, "you can't get blood out of a turnip".</p><p></p><p>Believe me when I say, I'm the last one to support any effort to take away our God given and constitutional rights, but there has to be some boundaries defining what is permissible and recording someone's tragedy is way, way out of bounds and there should be, at least in my opinion, a way, legally, to discourage it. My fear is that some liberal judge will rule that victims, simply because they happen to be in public when tragedy strikes, have no right to privacy and then it becomes a free-for-all.</p><p></p><p>And "Public scrutiny" no disrespect intended, but give me a break. Have you noticed what the public deems as acceptable these days? Just like drag shows and the trash they are feeding our children in school, the media will encourage it and because of that the public will just accept it as the "new norm". Unfortunately, the days when public scrutiny was an effective deterrent, the days we grew up in, are long gone. Today it's all about anything goes and the hell with everyone else but *ME*</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gadsden, post: 3911119, member: 49555"] I agree with recording/live-streaming a police contact. As long as they are not interfering with the officer I don't have any problem with that. Hell, I was recorded more times than I can count. It never bothered me because I knew wasn't doing anything illegal or unethical. Later, when we got body cams, which added to what our dash cams were capturing, I was recording myself as well as the people I was contacting. Unlike some officers, whose reasoning I won't speculate on, I was happy with the advent of dash cams as well as body cams. They helped me in more then one case to prove the accusations being levied against me were lies. Personal tragedies (and yes I know this wasn't the topic of the thread), like traffic accidents etc are a totally different thing though and considering many of the people recording incidents like I'm referring to don't have much besides their phone (hell some are homeless) good luck with a civil suit. Like the saying says, "you can't get blood out of a turnip". Believe me when I say, I'm the last one to support any effort to take away our God given and constitutional rights, but there has to be some boundaries defining what is permissible and recording someone's tragedy is way, way out of bounds and there should be, at least in my opinion, a way, legally, to discourage it. My fear is that some liberal judge will rule that victims, simply because they happen to be in public when tragedy strikes, have no right to privacy and then it becomes a free-for-all. And "Public scrutiny" no disrespect intended, but give me a break. Have you noticed what the public deems as acceptable these days? Just like drag shows and the trash they are feeding our children in school, the media will encourage it and because of that the public will just accept it as the "new norm". Unfortunately, the days when public scrutiny was an effective deterrent, the days we grew up in, are long gone. Today it's all about anything goes and the hell with everyone else but *ME* [/QUOTE]
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