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Where in the parent's comment did you get the idea that: >"In the second case you mentioned it’s easy to imagine they got a full recording of the event and thu
by nickff 5y ago
Where in the parent's comment did you get the idea that:
>"In the second case you mentioned it’s easy to imagine they got a full recording of the event and thus had more to work with than half a license plate number."
It seems like you're deliberately imagining circumstances favorable to the police.
- MichaelZuo 5y agoSF police have bodycams last time I checked, which almost guarantees the presence of one recorded video at least. And also many locations in SF are heavily covered by cameras? Like the downtown cores of many cities?
- fineIllregister 5y ago>...he was not in uniform... Why would the officer have a body cam if not on duty? GP is correct, you're ignoring what was written and fabricating details.
- MichaelZuo 5y agoIsn’t the presence of cameras on buildings in the second case and not in the first case also easy to imagine. Unless you believe that’s implausible in SF? It’s interesting that you ignored addressing the second part of my two part comment while also throwing the same accusation.
- fineIllregister 5y agoYou don't get credit for throwing crap against the wall, even if some of it might hypothetically stick ("hypothetically" being the key word, you are still imagining details that weren't in the original account). That's indicative of bad faith.
- MichaelZuo 5y agoMaking an accusation of bad faith is different from giving credit. The standard behaviour on HN for disagreement is not to immediately jump to accusations of bad faith but to have a polite discussion without necessarily giving credit. I can make the same accusation of bad faith against you but that leads nowhere.
- Talanes 5y agoYour first scenario is unlikely given that he wasn't otherwise uniformed, the second we could assume for both scenarios.
- jjeaff 5y agoThey don't wear body cams while off duty, in plain clothes.
- MichaelZuo 5y agoAnother one on duty could have been nearby? Anyways I’m not saying that is how it happened since obviously it’s just someone’s story on the internet, but the point is that there are so many possibilities for more solid evidence in a hit-and-run than half a plate number in a city like SF.