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truedelphi

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9. Thank you for all this fine information.
Wed Feb 29, 2012, 05:22 PM
Feb 2012

I forget where I saw it, it was on TV I think, but some officer who was video recorded during a traffic pull over was recorded by the individual he had stopped.

He offered up his badge number, slowly reciting the number so it could be heard when the video was played back. And he congratulated himself and the car driver on the fact that we live in a free nation.
he also offered up that as a police officer serving the public, he thought of his inter actions to be actions deserving of being recorded. Why not? If you are serving the public, then your conduct is not really "private" it is public, and should be as the officer pointed out, something that is up for grabs, including being up for grabs by a recording device. (Just as you and I don't expect privacy when we go into a bank. We know we are going to be surveilled.)

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