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Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." -- Daniel Webster
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010 :::
Glenn Reynolds (i.e., Instapundit) has been putting up a lot of stories about police shutting down people who record them in public. Often this is a violation of the law, but sometimes (especially in Massachusetts, Illinois, and Maryland, which have especially draconian anti-eavesdropping laws) people who record questionable behavior by the police end up being prosecuted themselves.
Here's an example of this kind of recording causing a bad cop to lose his job. Here is a case in which the police might have liked to have recording devices to prosecute quite a few cases of assaulting an officer. Police cars are generally outfitted with dashboard videorecorders, but I would think recording devices might be sufficiently small and cheap that a lot of an on-duty officer's day could be recorded for potential later use by a court, be it in support of the police or against them. There may well be something wrong with this suggestion that hasn't occurred to me - feel free to let me know.
::: posted by Steven at 11:55 AM
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