>to film anything happening in public spaces, I was tracking the progress of some activists who decided to action in this respect, Peaceful Streets Project (ht

>to film anything happening in public spaces, I was tracking the progress of some activists who decided to action in this respect, Peaceful Streets Project (http://peacefulstreets.com/ http://peacefulstreets.com/), in Austin a few years back. The police started getting super pissed at all these people filming them while doing arrests in public to ensure proper procedure. At some point the police came up with some ordinance saying you had to be 50 feet or some other ridiculous distance away from an officer engaged in duty, I think. Anyway perhaps some of you can stop talking theory and take action like the PSP has done. Be forewarned that getting on the police's radar is not going to be fun, depending how high they are on the thuggish crony scale. You might even be arrested for interfering with an officer's duties and find yourself in a byzantine justice system that will make you hate it forever. I think the efforts of the PSP did eventually result in the Austin PD wearing bodycams so that all their activity on the clock is recorded. There's a little cottage industry in making such wearable devices such that they hold up to the scrutiny of chain-of-custody and other legal concepts behind securing evidence and all that jazz. If enough people do it, it can work. The hard part is getting to that tipping point to convince enough people to do it without real fear of reprisal or complicating their lives.