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I am so very glad that local media picked up the story. As Carlos reminded us in a post back in February, the video mode on our cameras is very important.

If this lady didn’t have the video, then there would be no story and the media wouldn’t care. Cops carry guns to protect themselves and to create an air of intimidation and authority towards civilians. By carrying our cameras, I believe we create the same atmosphere for law enforcement that deals with us.
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In 2001 or 2002 or thereabouts I was up in my room in a shared 2 bedroom townhouse apartment, when I heard my roommate calling for me from downstairs after a knock on the door.

I came down and found the living room full of people – a few uniformed sheriff’s deputies, a guy in a suit with a badge on his belt, and two guys in chest armor with badges on their belts. Turns out the 2 guys in armor were bail bondsman, and it also turns out a guy we knew listed our address as his after he got arrested, bailed out, and then ran.

They weren’t very nice and absolutely would not believe us that he didn’t live there, had never lived there, and that we were just as angry as they were. We showed them utility bills and the lease, all without his name (I mean, he REALLY didn’t live there) and it didn’t matter. They kept coming back, although I put a stop to inviting them in. (Roommate screwed up on that one.) Eventually they stopped coming but that was a really irritating couple of months. I’d go to leave, get in my car, and then WHOOOSH a cruiser or an unmarked vehicle would be blocking me in and “HEY CAN WE TALK TO YOU?”

“…including a misdemeanor charge for battery on a peace officer”.

Ah, so that’s why they broke the rules & law.

Violated policy? Isn’t that’s a major understatement? It seems like these guys had neither 1) a warrant or 2) probably cause to indicate the fugitive was in the home.

If that’s true, isn’t it also true that these guys might also have violated 18 U.S.C. §§ 241-242; and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983-1985?

I live in this piece of shit town, and there’s a book out called Mean Justice about the over-reaching tactics of law enforcement in Bakersfield that sums it up pretty well. This kind of thing is a daily occurence.

How do you like our fat-ass sheriffs?

As a Bail Bondsman working in Long Beach for http://www.allamericanbailbonds.net/locations/California/Long-Beach.html, we see all types of horrible things. We also understand the Bail Bonding Process as we have been working in the bail bond service for years. Our hearts go out to the family.

My brother was located in Bradenton Fl. A bondsman came to his house and said he had the authority to go in his house and look for his son. His son was not there. The Bondsman had no warrent and no police officer present. My Brother gave them permmison to let them in. Now my Nephew is not wanted by the law at the moment. However his trail date is in October 2011 and if he skips his trail date once again the bondsman will be looking for him. I am south of Sarasota Fl. I went out to buy a camera cost 125 dollars and its the size of a cell phone. I know you cant get physical at the door with them. If they did it to my brother they will do it to me and my Father. If the time comes if the bondsman did knock on my door I will be prepared. I just hope that I would be fortinate like these couple here in the news article that the news will make something out of my viedo and take the viedo to a lawyer and see what I can do. I know how those bondsman can be. I hope and prey he dont tell me some lie its against the law to put the camera on him and he will do something drastic like to take the camera away from me.