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That's before you even get into "I think I'm 10ft away, but the cop says I'm 7ft so now I'm going to jail and will always have this arrest on my record even if

• deathanatos 4y ago
  Yeah, this exactly, and arguing the difference of 10ft vs. 7ft from a phone could be tricky, to say the least.
• bigiain 4y ago
  While I hate to suggest we need to use technical solutions here instead of social and legal ones, it might be worthwhile building a video streaming app that uses the LiDAR available on phones that have it, and overlays distances to every person in the frame onto the stream. “No, your honour, I was 9’7.5” away from the closest police officer when he moved towards me to confiscate my phone arrest me while the other officer used his taser on the handcuffed black guy for no reason. As you can see in this video on YouTube uploaded and timestamped at the time the incident unfolded.”
  • bragr 4y ago
    The ability to prove after the fact that you were a certain distance away won't stop you from being arrested and dragged to jail, which is probably the point. For a low level crime, by the time you are standing in front of judge with an opportunity to present evidence, a lot of time will have passed and most of the negative consequences of being charged with a crime will have already happened to you - the trauma of going to jail, bail money, hiring a lawyer, missing work, potentially losing your job, the stress and uncertainty, having a record and everything that comes with that. Even if you had that good evidence, those charges would turn your life upside down.