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now maybe the cops will be a little more careful on how they treat citizens if they think they might be recorded. Your right, Occupy needs this for future protests.

Gotta keep the 99% in line, dontcha know.

If I'm stopped or detained and I record then the recording is good. If I'm acting as an outside party then the law may be different.

The A.L.C.U.!!!!!!!!

go straight to a secure site at their headquarters just in case the cops decide to confiscate or otherwise destroy the phone. I don't trust cops in the least.

but there is a free app (Android and Apple) called "QIK Video" that will automatically upload a video to their cloud site (up to 25 recordings I think), even while recording live video. There is at least one (can't remember the name) other Android app that provides this capability.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qik.android&hl=en

It's better than nothing. I'm sick and tired of cops thinking that they are above the law and all we are, are potential suspects. I know this because for 30+ years, in my job capacity, I had to work with the cops and I have 2 relatives in LE and they have the same attitude. This new app. is a good thing in my opinion.

Once it was there, it was multipled. A person could be holding up their cellphone as if in a conversation but recording video. If the equipment was taken away it was already there. As Bloomberg said when asked why he was not more aggressive with OWS in 2011, as if he wasn't enough, he answered simply, 'Youtube.'

Some PDs started trying to confiscate cellphones and this could still have that vulnerability. Your idea is much better, though than the time involved with youtube and livesteam.

But at times communications are cut off, like the Twitter, etc. And Livestream for Occupy goes down, not certain if it is systematic or if witness's equipment is going down. Cellphone coverage could be interupted. It's something to think about. ACLU hworked to allow people to demonstrate; it just never seems enough.

These would be clearly admissible under the Law of Evidence as well as any known rules of evidence.

Police are alleging these tapes are "wire taps"... that's right. If you tape a cop on a public street you are guilty of wire tapping laws.

At least that is the case here in Illinois. The cops are saying the audio portion is tapping a conversation. Illinois specifically removed the "tapping a public official in their duties" provision to protect the pigs.

I believe any illegal "wire taps" would be inadmissible.

If they're not doing anything wrong, why should they complain about being videotaped or recorded? Hmmm??

too

if a recorded event was evidence of an officers professionalism, couldn't that be used as justification for a promotion?

Wouldn't it be great if you could get that on an iPhone in China.

I don't have one either. Most of my spoiled Chinese students had iPhones.

Available for the Android?!?

When you see something on the news (or elsewhere) where someone is videoing an embarrassing arrest the first thing a cop says is that it is against the law for a citizen to be recording the arrest taking place. I always wondered how that worked and never thought for a second that was really the law. However, in the situation of a citizen videoing an arrest you usually see the camera being snatched away and the person doing it shoved back being told to leave.

This is a new level of transparency. Many police in the past didn't fear what they did being observed in public. Then the nation went into SWAT and undercover for 'drugs' and 'terrorism' and hiding behind their gear. This is an interesting development, but the leadership at the top that gives the orders has got some explaining to do about these actions, too, or they will just keep going. This is so emblematic of our era, that 'they' are watching us and 'we' are watching 'them' now, too. And things do change when they are being observed, or stop to take the time to look back, normally.

NOW,
all we need is our own Surveillance Drones!

Even a rumor of privately owned Surveillance Drones would be effective if
a few remote controlled planes and copters showed up over protests.

recced!