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Re: CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police

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There are very few details in this forum post, just some nonspecific mentions of an individual recording a police checkpoint of some kind. What type of checkpoint? Why did this person feel it necessary to record the police? Why did a confrontation start? What were the circumstances of the escalation? In general, if you interfere with the police (even if you disagree with whatever it is they're doing) you can expect s…

It's amazing how quickly posts like this bring out the bootlickers. Are you employed by a law enforcement agency, or a PR firm working for one?

Re: CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police

#52

This sounds very much like one side of the story. "I was essentially arrested for filming a police checkpoint in Manchester, New Hampshire" I don't want to defend the police, but that sounds like there is a lot of information missing here. Why was he filming the police? What did other people do at/to/near the checkpoint? Was he alone or part of a group or even a mob?

> I don't want to defend the police Why not? Is it now politically incorrect to give the benefit of the doubt to people who literally put their lives on the line to serve the community and keep people safe?

This is a case of "trust but verify".

Yes we trust the police, but we'd like to verify they respect the law they swore to uphold, and that illegal behavior be dealt with due process.

Re: CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police

#53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, it probably looked like a gun from a distance. The police were in the neighborhood confronting somebody with a machine gun - not smart to take an action that looks like pointing a gun in a type of situation where one side has decided they need machine guns . It's not to excuse the behavior of the police..., but if you're pointing something at the police from across the street, it's hard to see the profile…

Shoot first! Ask questions later! mirite?!

When someone was firing a "machine gun" in the vicinity, that might not be the worst idea. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Re: CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police

#54
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So has anybody written an app for streaming video directly into cloud storage?

There are tons of such apps [1] for a phone (which I assume you are asking about, not much use streaming from a laptop). However, the part I'm not having success with is finding an app that hooks into the voice recognition, and starts within a second of getting the command to launch, because both Android and iOS currently do not provide a way to certify and enable apps that can be launched from the lock screen without first unlocking.

The phone OS would provide specific services to keep such an app ready to launch at any moment, so it doesn't even need to be loaded from flash storage, and give it the ability to let the user set overrides on normal preferences like WiFi/cell signal to enable location services as soon as it starts, etc.

Elsewhere on the technology fronts, we need lower energy consumption for selectable lower-quality video and audio, to enable constant audio recording, and video when the phone detects the camera is out of a pocket/purse. Then the "...but you don't know what happened in the seconds leading up to the start of the video..." defense falls apart as non-HD-but-acceptable-quality-for-admissible-evidence becomes a matter of course. Some automatic rotation to save space, hook up to social media like Twitter to detect geographical hotspots of controversy to, or other measures to try to stymie gaming the rotation.

In the US specifically, but also elsewhere where it applies, we also need legislative overrides on two-party consent recording rules: any official, in any capacity, unless explicitly named in a national security letter or similar, receiving or benefiting from any public funding, is subject to one-party consent recording rules.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=live+stream+video+to+cloud&i...

Re: CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police

#55

There are very few details in this forum post, just some nonspecific mentions of an individual recording a police checkpoint of some kind. What type of checkpoint? Why did this person feel it necessary to record the police? Why did a confrontation start? What were the circumstances of the escalation? In general, if you interfere with the police (even if you disagree with whatever it is they're doing) you can expect s…

> save for the very worst cops (which are in the minority) This is debatable at best.

Indeed. Good cops who protect bad cops are not good cops, and bad cops are generally well protected.

Re: CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police

#56
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sacramento County [0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/dad-im-shot-man-...

Not excusing the incident but the fuller story is a little more complicated than the police shot someone just because: "The incident happened Thursday when Sanchez's next-door neighbor, Ben Ledford, was allegedly "firing up to 100 machine gun rounds at a home across the street, killing a dog inside the house," CBS Sacramento reported. Ledford surrendered to police, but officers fired at Sanchez after they saw him sta…

Excusable in a war zone, not in a policing action. Then again a man firing 100 machine gun rounds would be almost unheard of in any other developed country, so maybe the US does qualify as a war zone.

Re: CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police

#57

This sounds very much like one side of the story. "I was essentially arrested for filming a police checkpoint in Manchester, New Hampshire" I don't want to defend the police, but that sounds like there is a lot of information missing here. Why was he filming the police? What did other people do at/to/near the checkpoint? Was he alone or part of a group or even a mob?

> I don't want to defend the police Why not? Is it now politically incorrect to give the benefit of the doubt to people who literally put their lives on the line to serve the community and keep people safe?

Because they've been wrong (and liars) before. We'd be stupid to keep trusting them.

Re: CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police

#58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, it probably looked like a gun from a distance. The police were in the neighborhood confronting somebody with a machine gun - not smart to take an action that looks like pointing a gun in a type of situation where one side has decided they need machine guns . It's not to excuse the behavior of the police..., but if you're pointing something at the police from across the street, it's hard to see the profile…

Shoot first! Ask questions later! mirite?!

Absolutely yes, in this case. I'd prefer the officers went home to their families. If you want to go around pointing your phone at everything, you need to stop and think about the consequences.

Re: CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police

#59

Why are the us cops such raging douche nozzles? After every interaction I've had with a cop in the us, I left hoping they get shot soon. I've never seen cops in other countries be like this.

I only met cool cops in the US (perhaps because they saw I was a foreigner). However, I do agree that in Europe you don't feel threatened at all by them, and that doesn't seem to be true in the States. There seems to be a trend in the US to treat everyone like criminals by default, while in Europe until they think you've done something wrong they're extremely nice (as they should). Although you were downvoted, it wou…

There seems to be a trend in the US to treat everyone like criminals by default

It's been that way for a long time. My dad worked at a prison for many years. To him, everyone was suspicious as hell: murderers, rapists, drug addicts/dealers, thieves, or (especially) sexual predators. None mutually exclusive, either.

Re: CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police

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post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> save for the very worst cops (which are in the minority) This is debatable at best.

Indeed. Good cops who protect bad cops are not good cops, and bad cops are generally well protected.

Criminals and accessories.
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