{"id":31486,"date":"2012-11-26T09:19:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T16:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/recording-the-police-is-not-a-crime.html"},"modified":"2012-11-26T09:19:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T16:19:52","slug":"recording-the-police-is-not-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/recording-the-police-is-not-a-crime.html","title":{"rendered":"Recording the police is not a crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So says (finally) the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>There is no question that police have a hell of a job. And the potential of being audio- or video-taped probably doesn&#39;t make it any easier.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the police also wield a hell of a lot of power. \u00a0They can lock you up. They can beat you up. They can shoot you. \u00a0And when it comes down to &quot;he said \/ she said&quot; disputes in court, judges and juries tend to assume the cop is speaking the truth.<\/p>\n<p>With great power comes great responsibility &#8212; and accountability, and transparency. \u00a0Otherwise, it&#39;s just power &#8230; and we know what power does.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/106728288712777899597\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"106728288712777899597\">Paula Jones<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/113210431006401244170'>Dan Gillmor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Good and important news for free speech and official accountability: Illinois law prohibiting videos of police is dead.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-50b388c8\/turbine\/chi-supreme-court-rejects-plea-to-prohibit-taping-of-police-20121126\/400\/16x9&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/chi-supreme-court-rejects-plea-to-prohibit-taping-of-police-20121126,0,686331.story'>Supreme Court blocks Illinois law prohibiting taping of police<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe U.S. Supreme Court has blocked enforcement of an Illinois law that prohibited people from recording police officers on the job.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/anK6oNzenf6' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says (finally) the Supreme Court. There is no question that police have a hell of a job. And the potential of being audio- or video-taped probably doesn&#39;t make it any easier. That said, the police also wield a hell of a lot of power. \u00a0They can lock you up. They can beat you up. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/recording-the-police-is-not-a-crime.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Recording the police is not a crime&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25380,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/13\/a-refreshingly-positive-story-about-police-accountability.html","url_meta":{"origin":31486,"position":0},"title":"A refreshingly positive story about police accountability","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Jan-12 1:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's illegal (in California, at least) for a police officer to cover their badge or otherwise hide their identity, for obvious reasons. 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