The police claim, as Mark Donahue, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, told the New York Times last week, that audio recording of police officers while performing their duty “can affect how an officer does his job on the street.” Well of course it does. The whole purpose of the newsgathering function of a free press is to do just that. As Jonathan Turley notes, without citizens recording police misconduct, America wouldn’t have known of the Rodney King beatings.
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This is a must-read. The first amendment is under serious attack, and the police are the people I trust least to be making calls on privacy rights. Let’s hope to hell this gets fixed before the G8 summit… |
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