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Feloniously recording an LEO, prosecutor or judge

Posted by David Hardy · 13 March 2012 07:33 AM

It's the law in Illinois. The defenses of the law are rather peculiar: "there will be tragic split seconds, where a pointed cellphone will be mistaken for a pointed gun.”

5 Comments | Leave a comment

Harold | March 13, 2012 8:40 AM | Reply

Just so you know what this is all about, one of the policemen teaching the required Missouri CCW course I took told us a story about an investigation he was involved in where he (and perhaps others in the local force) went to Illinois to investigate a suspect. When he got there, as he was unpacking his wiretapping equipment he was told it was worthless, because state law requires that a suspect be informed if he's being wiretapped (like within 30 days or so).

He finished the story by saying at that point he realized who really ran the state.

Which also explains why the Chicago FBI office is something like the 2nd largest in the nation; the system is set up so that the Feds have to do all the investigations in the state that would require wiretaps.

No wonder they don't want citizens doing anything like this as well.

Anonymous | March 13, 2012 12:14 PM | Reply

The defense almost sounds like a threat: "Point that camera/phone at me and I'll kill you."

Chuck | March 13, 2012 3:33 PM | Reply

A corrupt government does not want a record of their actions.

Harold | March 13, 2012 5:22 PM | Reply

It's also the case that a citizen with a video camera is supremely dangerous to the job and career of a cop. Even when he's in the right he can get screwed (e.g. since the LAPD skimped on baton training, specifically what would have been needed to take down Rodney King, so the genuinely compassionate guy in charge ordered what we saw (never in context, of course), instead of shooting him).

And I don't know about the other nasty cities in the state, but it's well established that the Chicago police are above average in corruption. Way above.

Greg | March 13, 2012 6:14 PM | Reply

So if I was in Chicago and owned a donut shop with survaliance cameras. How many crimes a day would I be comitting?

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