Re:Phone conversations with law enforcement can be recorded ...
by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @12:00AM
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> we can all agree that someone loudly "recording" shoulder to shoulder with police officer disrupts their ability to resolve situations
Sure. We can also agree that throwing rotting sea slugs at anyone eating a hamburger is disagreeable. But absent evidence of it (a) happening and (b) going un(der)punished, any legislation to ban it is performative.
Performative legislation isn't bad per se. Ideally, it would have no effect. But given almost any increase in legal surface area brings rise to unintended consequences, the result is a net negative.
> are disingenuous protesters who abuse recording excuses to disrupt law enforcement
Again, do you have examples of people recording police disrupting law enforcement where those recording weren't punished (sufficiently)?
> Both of these things are wrong
If one is occuring more frequently, and moreover going more-frequently unpunished, then tipping the scale further in that direction is counterproductive.
If police abuse is running rampant while nobody can find unpunished instances of disruptive recording of the police, then these rules are more likely to further the abuse than facilitate legitimate law enforcement. (To say nothing of the wasted political capital, given the myriad of problems Florida has to deal with.)
Sure. We can also agree that throwing rotting sea slugs at anyone eating a hamburger is disagreeable. But absent evidence of it (a) happening and (b) going un(der)punished, any legislation to ban it is performative.
Performative legislation isn't bad per se. Ideally, it would have no effect. But given almost any increase in legal surface area brings rise to unintended consequences, the result is a net negative.
> are disingenuous protesters who abuse recording excuses to disrupt law enforcement
Again, do you have examples of people recording police disrupting law enforcement where those recording weren't punished (sufficiently)?
> Both of these things are wrong
If one is occuring more frequently, and moreover going more-frequently unpunished, then tipping the scale further in that direction is counterproductive.
If police abuse is running rampant while nobody can find unpunished instances of disruptive recording of the police, then these rules are more likely to further the abuse than facilitate legitimate law enforcement. (To say nothing of the wasted political capital, given the myriad of problems Florida has to deal with.)