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No idea on the stats, but there have been a few high profile incidents in the news in the last several years. For awhile police officers have been attempting t

• javajosh 15y ago
  Yes, those high profile cases always get my blood boiling - far more than the general public's blood, apparently. My question was supposed to be "When (and why) did police start arresting people for photographing them?" and while I don't have data to support this, I think it was a combination of a) Rodney King, and b) 9/11. The former incident demonstrated the power of personal video recording in creating problems for police. The latter incident gave police more confidence in an broader range of powers, including the tangentially related issue of enforcing ban on the photography of sensitive places (which is, of course, a rather stupid policy, but I digress). So, greater awareness of risk plus enhanced power yielded the application of that enhanced power to reducing that risk. Could there be anything more reasonable, more human, and more evil?