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I love the site but I really don’t understand why this is up here? I am hoping that this does not become a cop hating website with just a lean to photography.

And honestly it sounds like you might have a thing against boy scouts

This post isn’t about hating cops, it’s about showing in instance where photography really is illegal. It’s against the law to snap photos of some one in a change room, because there is an expectation of privacy. It just happens to be a cop that did the photographing.

This was a blatant invasion of privacy, so there is no violation of the photographer’s first amendment rights. I would imagine that is why this story has been posted.
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This story is up there because it is ironic in the sense that police have made numerous arrests for “improper photography” when it wasn’t called for, but the fact that this cop gets arrested for it when it is called for it.

I feel the same as Josh. This article is out of place on your site. You do have the right to post what you like here, but I had the impression that “Photography is Not a Crime” was created to bring light and defense to those whose rights have been violated as a result of their act of photo shooting and not as a place to publish embarassing stories about a peeping tom police officer.
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Thank you Carlos for clarifying.
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Carlos checks two search phrases when he gets up in the morning “photographer arrested” and then he checks the “National Police Misconduct News ” for “photographer” as well.

Anything that comes up gets parsed through his irony meter and posted here. You guys haven’t been reading this blog long, have you?

“This post isn’t about hating cops, it’s about showing in instance where photography really is illegal.”

Yeah keep telling yourself that. People get arrested all the time for this kind of crime. I find it interesting that this is the only story to be posted. Let’s be honest here. Based on some of the left field commenters, it’s clear this is an anti-cop site.

However I do hope they throw the book at
the moron.

Myopia. That’s the problem. This is so not a cop-hating site. This is a people-who-disregard-others’-rights hating site.

Sure, some people here flat-out hate cops and any authority, but not me and I’m 99.95% sure not Carlos.

Protect and serve and don’t shit on my rights.

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“Based on some of the left field commenters, it’s clear this is an anti-cop site.”

Better call for your anti-cop site sniffing dog for confirmation.

Actually, if you had read, it was all about hating Eagle Scouts. Only some of us are as creepy as that guy though.

The difference between a cop doing something, and joe schmoe doing something, is that the cop is doing it with our taxpayer money, violating his duty, and hypocritically breaking the law he is supposed to enforce.

A cop doing something criminal is 1,000 times the news of a civilian doing the same thing. It is 1,000 times more offensive.

Also, police are not convicted at nearly as high a rate — for the same crimes — as civilians, because of the Thin Blue Line protection they receive as part of the “etablishment”. Thus, there is a greater burden to highlight their activities, when illicit.
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Are you sure it’s not just an opportunity for cop haters to feel smug? It sure seems that way to me.

I believe this guy was off-duty so it wasn’t a waste of tax money. He will be fired and get a sentence that is probably just as harsh as what anyone else would get. Plus he gets the bonus of having it all over the Internet.

“Are you sure it’s not just an opportunity for cop haters to feel smug?”

No, it’s not just that, but I’m sure it’s a bonus for those people. One is not exclusive of the other.

As for a sentence that’s “probably just as harsh,” statistically that’s not bloody likely, as we see from Packratt’s work – “The Elusive Higher Standard”:

http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/?p=910
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