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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 432401" data-attributes="member: 13090">Safety? Whose &quot;safety&quot;? It's already illegal to interfere with a LEO in the performance of their duties and I don't see why they need a 25 foot buffer from the public to accomplish that... Doing so can already result in injury, arrest or both so why now, all of a sudden, is this such an alleged &quot;safety&quot; issue? Or, is it that some police officers simply don't like the idea that practically every citizen walking the street now carries on their person the technology to effectively surveil them on the job 24/7? Huh. There's a thought. And here's another: The tail doesn't wag the dog officer Friendly and the police don't get to curtail citizens rights because of personal technology, which is clearly what this is really about. Apparently this wasn't any kind of &quot;safety issue&quot; in the decades that pre-date the technology that now seems to really be problematic for cops that, apparently, like to overstep their authority. And now, suddenly, they need a twenty-five foot buffer zone? For &quot;safety reasons&quot;, of course. Curious! Personally, I'd like to see all LEO's body-cammed with full video and audio recording initiated automatically from the moment they dawn the uniform. No institute of law enforcement should have ANY ability to access those recordings; they should be kept under absolute control of an independent third party. ....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 432401, member: 13090"] Safety? Whose "safety"? It's already illegal to interfere with a LEO in the performance of their duties and I don't see why they need a 25 foot buffer from the public to accomplish that... Doing so can already result in injury, arrest or both so why now, all of a sudden, is this such an alleged "safety" issue? Or, is it that some police officers simply don't like the idea that practically every citizen walking the street now carries on their person the technology to effectively surveil them on the job 24/7? Huh. There's a thought. And here's another: The tail doesn't wag the dog officer Friendly and the police don't get to curtail citizens rights because of personal technology, which is clearly what this is really about. Apparently this wasn't any kind of "safety issue" in the decades that pre-date the technology that now seems to really be problematic for cops that, apparently, like to overstep their authority. And now, suddenly, they need a twenty-five foot buffer zone? For "safety reasons", of course. Curious! Personally, I'd like to see all LEO's body-cammed with full video and audio recording initiated automatically from the moment they dawn the uniform. No institute of law enforcement should have ANY ability to access those recordings; they should be kept under absolute control of an independent third party. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"]....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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