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Posted by Nilet on Sat Jul 7 02:52:29 2007, in response to Re: Update: The Memory Card's Still Out, posted by Edwards! on Sat Jul 7 00:39:14 2007.  Heh, no one deletes my RFW video of the (J) train leaving Broadway Junction and crossing the entire main line and gets away with it! Actually, not much dedication is required. I haven't missed a single new event, so the lack of posted updates should give you a good idea of how slowly these things go. The main thing is that I don't want a cop who is willing to violate the fourth amendment patrolling anywhere. Her casual remark: "You can't prove I deleted them" seemed to suggest (to me, and also a couple other people I told the story to) that she was used to breaking the law. There's no excuse for illegally damaging someone's property, but if she was indeed used to doing things like that, it's especially important that she's either corrected or fired. One other (minor) update: Investigator Cody said that they may not be able to release the undeleted pics to me. I can't see why that would be the case; I'd understand why they wouldn't release evidence used in an investigation, but these pictures are my property, and I've already seen (most) of them on the camera's screen. Hopefully, I'll be able to get the recovered pics back. If not, I actually considered going to small claims court and suing the individual cop who deleted them for the $30 cost of an undeletion program for my own computer so I can recover them myself. Dragging her into court and making her pay for the damage she caused, however minor it may be, would be a good way to make sure she thinks twice before violating someone's property rights! Incidentally, as a result of that incident, I am now taking matters into my own CCD and leaving the camera on during any and all encounters with cops in the subway. With a video camera running the whole time, there's no way a cop could delete anything and get away with it! Even if a cop takes the camera from me and turns it off, I'd still have a video of him/her reaching for and taking the camera, which is illegal without probable cause and would give him/her some splainin' to do. It also means that, unless the cop goes so far as to delete stuff or take the camera, I can email entire videos of cop incidents to someone I know who was a former cop and a former CCRB board member. The most recent cop incident (and the only one since "the big one") was a couple days ago, at 145th Street. (This was relatively shortly after a non-cop incident at Times Square.) Although I could make the argument that I was detained illegally, this one wasn't nearly as bad as the last one. Unfortunately, the video is eight minutes long, and Photobucket wants it to be five minutes or less. :( |
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