Facts
There is a huge difference between privacy and harassment. Being viewed in case a wanted felon gets picked up on the alert system is one thing. Pulling people over just because they are on the registry is, as they use to say on Mad Tv “That’s on a whole nutha level”.

The Flock cams are just a predicable extension of the DOT cams. Just remember, there’s no reasonable expectation of privacy anymore.

The registry makes no one safe.

With the pervasiveness of cameras, I think any traffic violations should be corroborated by video evidence or thrown out. Perhaps a law to this effect would keep LE overreach in check.

No, that’s just another example of how the registry protected the public and made everyone safe.

Donald

So sorry this happened to you. I told a story on here numerous times but won’t go completely into it. I use to work in law enforcement so I know all the laws (Except apparently the ones they make up).

I truly feel a day care of kids could be on fire and the officers detaining (Illegally) registered citizens would call in on their radio and say they are not available as they are conducting an important investigation on a dangerous felon.

I was held for 1.5 hours in a park before the FDLE told them to let me go. I was told to never go back to that park. Well there is a park right next to it that I go all the time. It is NOT the park I was told to leave. The guy is so stupid I wave to him all the time and he doesn’t even realize it is me. I Yell “Thank you for your service officer”.

I could make this into a race thing because the officer is a different race than me and of the 120 officers on that force, in 30 years, that ONE officer is the only one to ever bother me. But I am not going there as I am sure it was a registry thing.

What is funny is, the other officer was itching to go find some real bad guys and kept looking at me over the shoulder of “Chip on shoulder” cop like “Sorry I am not on board with this behavior”. I felt for that officer because I was once him, haven’t to keep silent while my supervisor was bashing someone’s brains in just for mouthing off.

Not all cops become cops to have power and control, but many of them do. Some of them were bullies as kids and some of them were bullied. Both are a bad reason to become a cop.

I have found though that mouthing off to them is going to make it worse. I never once raised my voice to the officer detaining me and held back saying things like “Why don’t you do your job and go solve a real crime”. I was nothing but professional until the very end when I had enough and asked for a Watch Commander.

He asked how I knew what that was and I stated I worked for many years in a major metro police department in the 1980s and also have a degree in Criminal justice. At that point he threw my license at me hitting me in the face with it, just missing my eye. And said something I cannot repeat on here.

I try and stay off the radar but now with the license plate readers on many patrol cars, I have been followed many times. When I see them, I change lanes. If they move over as well, I pull into a business and go inside until they leave.

Thank You, Captain,
…..for Your Tireless Volunteerism to Educate the Many Deaf Ears Out There!

Just Always Remember, That ‘Some of them’ have County Jails to Keep Fully Populated 24/7!

It is a Business! ”

“Crime is Commerce”

Not sticking up for anything illegal by the pastor but street justice ?