I didn't mean to paint with a wide brush, so to speak. I know police as a whole are not evil. I've been let off the hook by police quite a few times, had an of

I didn't mean to paint with a wide brush, so to speak. I know police as a whole are not evil. I've been let off the hook by police quite a few times, had an officer give me a ride home when I was stranded after walking several miles as a teenager, etc. Police retaliation happens, though. Corruption exists, etc. It's not a huge stretch to imagine local police retaliating against someone who whips out a cell phone. Even if the courts won't convict that person of a crime, police can very much exact revenge just by paying more attention to you than they might have otherwise. Stopping you without cause, searching you without cause, detaining you without reason. There are plenty of ways I could imagine retaliating against a citizen if I was corrupted/otherwise morally compromised, empowered as a police officer, and had a grudge. tl;dr: I'm not casting all cops as evil, I'm stupid, but not that stupid. I'm only speculating that this court decision might not stop an officer with a grudge from retaliating against a civilian. It's perfectly logical, and wasn't intended as a generalization against police. I'm not a cop-hater.