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Conversation, Detention, and Arrest

since9

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Wearing a bodycam full time will be a wee bit awkward full time. Cops lie all the time and most prosecutors and judges will not let a mere serf gig a criminal cop...even when there is irrefutable evidence (video/audio) of the cop's unlawful acts. remember, there is no bad cop, just poorly trained or under-trained good cops.

I'm not in the business of criminalizing cops. I'm in the business of defending myself. I'm also not in either the habit or of a mind to break the law. If recording their behavior reveals admissible evidence demonstrating law enforcement behavior that crumbles whatever case LE or some prosecutor thinks they might have against me, then by all means, my attorney will let that house of cards come crumbling down.

But he cannot do that without evidence, can he? At least not as well. :)
 

since9

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Nice link S9. My interactions with LE have been mostly, uh, weird. Often with LE taking a position either opposed to or irrelevant to the actual law or code. Many non-LE people also double down when they are wrong, very common, but with LE it feels worse. And a bit riskier.

I've observed some law enforcement types doing just that. I don't argue with them about it in public. If I know them well enough, I might send them an e-mail. Most of the time it has no direct, immediate impact on me, so I ignore it.

The other problem is that unless you're in the country illegally or otherwise a bona fide criminal such as a drug dealer, gang banga, or GTA-IRL, the wonderful legal help organizations seem to have approximately zero interest in defending a citizen's rights. Ain't it great? :rolleyes:

I'm sure that's true in many liberal states. Anything for undocumented aliens, right? Fortunately, local law enforcement knows undocumented aliens are about 17 times more likely to commit crimes. They don't treat them unfairly, but they don't cut them any slack, either.
 
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