Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
yeh if it's one person but not if it's a dozen or more
20,000 Met Police Officers to wear body cameras
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Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
the people who want to be in the police are the very people who should be barred from the force
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
The onus is on them to prove its for terrorism purposes, it even says filming normal policing is not generally considered as terrorist activity
Is that a joke?
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
if you have to ask you already know the answer.
skyscraper101
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I realise this, but that doesn't stop them taking your camera unlawfully anyway and then, even if proved to be an unlawful months down the line, they can then just apologise for dealing with 'a difficult situation' wrongly but claim it was all 'heat of the moment' stuff and 'decisions had to be made in a split second and <insert whatever additional excusable soundbite here> for which the media will be told there will be an internal inquiry and yadda yadda... the cop will keep their job. Oh and guess what, the footage was accidentally deleted while in our possession. Sorry.
...because that would be a much more preferable outcome to having to face up to your own police brutality/murder in court if the evidence wasn't confiscated for 'terrorism' purposes.
This is deeply worrying from my pov (a perspective that I might agree on Pickman's on!).
The direct thing that I would be concerned about is that you develop a degree of verisimilitude with regard to police cams that no suspect would be ever able to counter.
While on the face of it the proposed policy may seem to make the police more accountable, it would, in effect, make them immeasurably more powerful.
The direct thing that I would be concerned about is that you develop a degree of verisimilitude with regard to police cams that no suspect would be ever able to counter.
While on the face of it the proposed policy may seem to make the police more accountable, it would, in effect, make them immeasurably more powerful.
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
yeh they'd be walking cctv cameras.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
OTOH, the amount and quality of footage available to be collated, edited, and given a cheapo voice over and title sequence before being flogged to ITV is going to be huge
It would be fascinating to know how the editorial meetings of "Police, Camera, Action!" and similar shows are conducted...
Buy yourselves one of these, and a large-capacity memory card, and keep it in your shirt pocket:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/141556528936
It looks just like a pen, and it even works as a pen.
But press the button on the top, and you are recording reasonable quality video and audio of everything happening in front of you. And unlike when you pull your phone out and start waving it about like a camera, people generally don't even notice that you are videoing them, and so don't start getting aggressive and telling you to "put that fucking camera away" etc.
Costing less than a tenner, OK maybe twenty quid with a memory card, but hardly "James Bond" prices!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/141556528936
It looks just like a pen, and it even works as a pen.
But press the button on the top, and you are recording reasonable quality video and audio of everything happening in front of you. And unlike when you pull your phone out and start waving it about like a camera, people generally don't even notice that you are videoing them, and so don't start getting aggressive and telling you to "put that fucking camera away" etc.
Costing less than a tenner, OK maybe twenty quid with a memory card, but hardly "James Bond" prices!
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
under the orders of the police i suppose
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Arse technica??
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
shit quality?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I thought maybe like the Italian ass tecnica, technical assistance.
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
but not ars technica
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I thought maybe it was an English play on that.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Back in the good old days of the '70s and '80s, some of us used to make contemporaneous notes if we saw SUS busts happening. The OB hated it. A significant minority of the time, though, they let the "suspect" go because the pretext for the original stop didn't stand up, and the coppers would rely on provoking the suspect into saying or doing something he could be nicked for.
Holding the OB to account, whether through video surveillance or note-taking, is never a joke.
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