As NYPD Probes Footage of Police Brutality, Recording the Cops Still a Felony in Illinois

[marmar]

from AlterNet:



As NYPD Probes Footage of Police Brutality, Recording the Cops Still a Felony in Illinois


People around the country are rightly outraged at NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna after multiple recordings of him indiscriminately pepper-spraying unarmed Occupy Wall Street protesters surfaced. If not for those recordings, Bologna would likely have never been identified and held accountable for his ruthless behavior.

Meanwhile, in the state of Illinois residents are regularly arrested for recording on-duty police in public, regardless of the circumstances, thanks to a draconian eavesdropping law, which I wrote about extensively here.

Illinois is one of a handful of all-party consent states, where it is illegal to record a conversation unless everyone involved has given permission to do so. But the law is most restrictive in Illinois, where it is a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison to record on-duty police officers. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/673527/as_nypd_probes_footage_of_police_brutality%2C_recording_the_cops_still_a_felony_in_illinois/

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. Ummm. Cops can record you in public because

there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.

So what excuse is there for not being allowed to record the cops so long as the person doing it does not physically impede the officer's "work?"

[dembotoz]

2. the other side of states rights is when they take them away

you see the tv shows of some poor tourist getting a long prison term
for doing something in a foreign land.


now i guess that includes the home of the cubbies......


and i worry when my brewers go off to play the arizona team
cause some of them look hispanic and shit they could get deported right off the fucking team bus.

and so many reasons to be nervous in texas......


not that i am trying to say my state is the land of milk and honey--wisconsin under walker
is a place i barely recognize anymore.

[madrchsod]

3. that`s why many of the cops in this state do what ever they want.

they know they can get away with anything because no one can prove they broke the law. in some cities the cops actually "force" drivers into breaking the law.