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Turning camera on police activities is good thing
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What’s good for the police apparently isn’t good for the people – or so the law enforcement community would have us believe when it comes to surveillance.
That’s a concise summary of a new trend noted by National Public Radio last week – the trend whereby law enforcement officials have been trying to prevent civilians from using cell phone cameras in public places as a means of deterring police brutality.
Oddly, the effort – which employs both forcible arrests of videographers and legal proceedings against them – comes at a time when the American Civil Liberties Union reports that “an increasing number of American cities and towns are investing millions of taxpayer dollars in surveillance camera systems.”
Then again, maybe it’s not odd that the two trends are happening simultaneously. Perhaps as more police officers use cameras to monitor every move we make, they are discovering the true power of video to independently document events. And as they see that power, they don’t want it turned against them.
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Apparently this is what some police officers see when they look at a camera, which explains the horror stories of photographers being harassed by law enforcement for having cameras and making pictures.
Here’s a closer look at this Canon 16M:
Kansas Rep. Pete DeGraaf: Being impregnated during a rape is just like getting a flat tire
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Rape is often called the ultimate violation of self. A crime of absolute contempt for personal integrity, leaving the women caught in its wreckage to labor under the trauma for years. What reprehensible event could possibly have the same consequences as the spiritual dead zone rape victims are left in?
Well, getting a flat tire, according to Kansas state Rep. Pete DeGraaf.
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If that’s a 16mm, I can’t even imagine the recoil on my 90mm macro, not to mention the gargantuan devastation inevitably wreaked by my 200mm telephoto (~300mm equivalent on my crop sensor!).
(That being said, that looks like an EF 300mm lens, maybe even with a 2x teleconverter).
Is that a camera in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
Can you imagine how they will respond with this Sigma Ultra Tele 100-400 F2.8 Lens.
They will send in tanks.
http://www.pma-show.com/news_images/0401_sigma-telephoto-zoom-lens.jpg
@paul – they’ll need a tank just to move that thing!