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When in the past, is now. There are huge protest happening to protest three incidents of police brutality against unarmed citizens. Two of those were filmed by bystanders. Ny has just put cameras on the police to quiet the protesters, though the problem lies in the fact that those cops won't be tried in court for their actions. The film already shows the cops broke the law and were completely at fault.You'd think in this day and age they'd be wanting to go the other way and have complete transparency to prevent any repeat of events in the past when something has gone down and people are rioting over it - unless they're scared of what could be revealed?!
How long till those video are missing? Tougher fines and punishment for cops is the answer.
No, Illinois didn’t ban recordings of cops — but they did get more power to eavesdrop on you
... But the keyword here is "public." Under the new legislation, state senator Raoul says anyone is free to record an officer when there's no reasonable expectation of privacy... in public, in a car, even in your own home, if a police officer comes to search.
Critics say this "reasonable expectation of privacy" standard is too broad, and could potentially deter citizens from recording police at all. But Raoul says it was left broad on purpose.
“Sometimes when you list some, by implication some may interpret that the ones that you don’t list are not covered,” he said.
What's still not allowed is surreptitiously recording law enforcement on the job if they're in their office, wiretapping their phones, hacking email, etc. Senator Raoul says that's because that recording puts police investigations at risk.
But even that crime would only be a class 3 felony, down from a class one. (Eavesdropping on regular citizens, by the way, would be a class four felony, which carries...
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