Are police required to answer truthfully if you ask them if they're filming from a dash cam?

If the answer is yes, then they've consented to being taped. They can't consent to one camera, and not another camera. The first question to ask will be "Are you filming this?" then if the answer is yes, hit the record button on your own camera.

 

That whole "interfering with a police investigation" is total crap most of the time.

This is a photo of the start of my run-in with an overzealous officer. Keep in mind this was taken with a 300 mm lens. I'm stuck in stopped traffic, maybe six cars back, on Angeles Crest Highway and a bunch of us are standing outside our cars for ten minutes while emergency service guys are working on something we can't even see!



This goober comes over to threaten me. All the drivers around are "WTF?" But I wasn't in the mood to either be arrested or fight the confiscation/damage of my expensive gear.

 

This, along with the new ruling that in order to invoke your right to remain silent, you must TELL THE COP YOU WISH TO REMAIN SILENT, pisses me off. Seriously, what the ****.

 

And any other recorded interview that isn't accepted.

 

Where did you hear this?

 

^^ It's a recent Supreme Court ruling about a case involving Miranda rights. I guess the way it works now is that if you explicitly state you want to exercise your right to silence or to have a lawyer present, the police are not allowed to question you. But if you don't explicitly state that, they are allowed to question you for as long as they want, and use whatever you might say against you.

In this particular case, the suspect didn't say a word for three hours of questioning, then answered a single question that was used to convict him.

In other words, you are presumed to have waived your rights unless you specifically request them. (Imagine what the US would be like if the Bill of Rights worked that way.)

 

Wish you hadn't linked that forum. I browsed it shortly and found a lot of the pigs on that forum to be complete douches.

 

id say something about a slippery slope but it looks like your rights just slipped off the edge of the god damn mountain already.

 

If these Law Makers and Police officers continue on this path their on, they will be reminded that over 70 million Americans own guns and have a constitutional right to overthrow a tyrannical and oppressive government and their enforcers.

 

Yeah, but 69.99 million of those will be too busy finding out America's next Idol to do anything about it. The remaining 10k will just go to jail.

Realistically though - those 70 million don't need guns to effect change. They just need to go frickin' VOTE for the candidate that supports their views.