GreatWhiteWalrus’s Comments

• Sep 13th, 2013 @ 12:59pm

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  on If You Can't Trust A Cop... 13-Year Veteran Of Seattle PD Makes Body Cameras For Cops
  Ah, yes, Bloomie's Boys! As you read this, remember that the young fellow was stealing paving stones, an activity which not only puts citizens in the gravest danger, but poses an imminent threat to the safety of New York City's finest:
  http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mother-tamon-robinson-charged-dent-made-nypd-car-struck -son-article-1.1175484
• Sep 13th, 2013 @ 6:00am

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  on If You Can't Trust A Cop... 13-Year Veteran Of Seattle PD Makes Body Cameras For Cops
  Okay, I'll correct my semantic error! :)
  
  You don't have the right to have a surveillance camera on the street removed or shut off on the grounds it might record your public "personal" activity.
  
  And you are correct, the right to object remains, as in I have the right to object, if I wish, to Bloomberg growing a walrus mustache....
• Sep 13th, 2013 @ 5:15am

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  on If You Can't Trust A Cop... 13-Year Veteran Of Seattle PD Makes Body Cameras For Cops
  A police officer on the job interacting with the public does not have the same privacy rights as a citizen(you don't have the right to object to surveillance cameras on the street recording you dallying with an extra-marital partner, do you?). Except for reasonable exclusions like eating, doing your "personal business", etc., there is no reason that a uniformed police officer should object to his interactions being recorded, either by his own department or by a citizen. As Reagan famously quipped, "Trust but verify!".