• Talentless Sculptor@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I thought it was a good idea to record every interaction with the police without them knowing that you did so. Are we now saying that wearing a hidden camera in public is bad?

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      5 hours ago

      The US police doesn’t even care if people are overtly filming them killing people without cause, they still get away with it.

      How would a “hidden” camera change this?

      Also, it is fairly easy to see the camera lenses on smart glasses, they could easily find a way to knock the glasses off your face and step on them to look like a plausible accident.

      You take them to court, the police department pays, best case, the police is transferred to another district.

      It is far better to have a dashcam with a fisheye lens in your car, it is easily overlooked and and has a large FOV, while also picking up sound.

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        5 hours ago

        The US police doesn’t even care if people are overtly filming them killing people without cause

        Not true. They hate it.

        they still get away with it.

        The individual police officer might, but filming them is for your protection from a wrongful conviction and to secure damages should they break the law during the arrest.

        Also, it is fairly easy to see the camera lenses on smart glasses, they could easily find a way to knock the glasses off your face and step on them to look like a plausible accident.

        This sounds far more contrived than knocking a phone out of your hand.

        You take them to court, the police department pays, best case, the police is transferred to another district.

        A few hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money to most people. Maybe not to you though.

        It is far better to have a dashcam with a fisheye lens in your car, it is easily overlooked and and has a large FOV, while also picking up sound.

        Sure, but when you are a pedestrian, this isn’t an option.

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            1 minute ago

            I don’t use them, but if I lived in a country where the police habitually abuse innocent citizens and get away with it, I would carry a camera on my person 24/7.

            Baseless insinuation in an ineffective attempt to smear, not withstanding.