Various discussions have ensued here about videotaping LEO's in the course of their workday.
Here's a guy that got arrested for doing it, and profited handsomely from the experience:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/27/r ... ettlement/
Boston man $170,000 richer
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Boston man $170,000 richer
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Re: Boston man $170,000 richer
I wouldn't say he profited handsomely. The case has been going on for five years. Even with the ACLU's help that's plenty of time to rack up legal bills of a quarter million or more. If I had to guess I'd say that from a dollar for dollar perspective he probably about broke even. Factor in the hours of his life that he'll never get back and it's not even close.
The sad thing is that it's the taxpayers who lose. The public officials who caused the fiasco couldn't care less. If I ran a city I'd have a rule that any settlements or legal awards get charged back to the department in question. A couple of bozos in your department cost us $170,000? I guess you'll have to hold off on getting new SWAT toys for a few years.
That's how it works in business; when an executive demands that we pay out an otherwise deniable claim to a customer to keep the relationship the first thing we say is "No problem, I just need your cost center and GL." Funny how when it's money that would go to their bonuses they all of a sudden start asking lots of questions.
The sad thing is that it's the taxpayers who lose. The public officials who caused the fiasco couldn't care less. If I ran a city I'd have a rule that any settlements or legal awards get charged back to the department in question. A couple of bozos in your department cost us $170,000? I guess you'll have to hold off on getting new SWAT toys for a few years.
That's how it works in business; when an executive demands that we pay out an otherwise deniable claim to a customer to keep the relationship the first thing we say is "No problem, I just need your cost center and GL." Funny how when it's money that would go to their bonuses they all of a sudden start asking lots of questions.
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Re: Boston man $170,000 richer
If we view the term "profited" in a broader sense, it also depends upon the goals of the attorney who was arrested. It may be he wanted to cover his legal expenses while effecting change in process -- training the police officers:docachna wrote:. . . profited handsomely from the experience:
His statement, "It’s sad that it takes so much for police to learn the laws they were supposed to know in the first place", sounds like the open carry discussions going on around here lately.“The law had been clear for years that openly recording a video is not a crime. It’s sad that it takes so much for police to learn the laws they were supposed to know in the first place,” Glik said in an ACLU media advisory. “I hope Boston police officers will never again arrest someone for openly recording their public actions.”
The city has since initiated a training program for officers that teaches them to ignore individuals who film their activities in public. The two arresting officers in Glik’s case were also disciplined.
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Re: Boston man $170,000 richer
Revenue =/= profit.
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Re: Boston man $170,000 richer
How were the cops in this cas acting any differently than King George's standing army of the 1770s. That army, as we know, brought us the 4A and the "no standing armies" clause in the US constitution and many state constitutions. We fail to heed the provisions of our governing documents to our peril.
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