Comments on: Must You Hand Your Camera to a Police Officer if Asked? http://enticingthelight.com/2009/01/22/must-you-hand-your-camera-to-a-police-officer-if-asked/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=must-you-hand-your-camera-to-a-police-officer-if-asked A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment Thu, 17 May 2012 02:21:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Justin http://enticingthelight.com/2009/01/22/must-you-hand-your-camera-to-a-police-officer-if-asked/comment-page-1/#comment-380 Justin Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:28:42 +0000 http://enticingthelight.wordpress.com/?p=583#comment-380 Good post. Unfortunately, cops don't always understand the laws they try to enforce, and sometimes they make decisions above their pay grade. You might remember my run in with the Pittsburgh PD, or rather ONE rogue officer. I gave him a little lip, but conceded my rights to him without much of a fight. If I lived in Pittsburgh I'd have tested his authority with certainty the ACLU would have backed me, but since I was not 100% sure on the rules/laws in Pittsburgh transit, and only had a half day left, I decided to comply. Funny thing Pittsburghs T system is perhaps the smallest in the world, and there are thousands of photos on the web, to think my snapshot would have been the one to bring it all down is insane. Great post though, photographers in the know can better defend the limited rights we have remaining after the Bush administration was finished gutting the constitution. Good post. Unfortunately, cops don’t always understand the laws they try to enforce, and sometimes they make decisions above their pay grade.

You might remember my run in with the Pittsburgh PD, or rather ONE rogue officer. I gave him a little lip, but conceded my rights to him without much of a fight. If I lived in Pittsburgh I’d have tested his authority with certainty the ACLU would have backed me, but since I was not 100% sure on the rules/laws in Pittsburgh transit, and only had a half day left, I decided to comply. Funny thing Pittsburghs T system is perhaps the smallest in the world, and there are thousands of photos on the web, to think my snapshot would have been the one to bring it all down is insane.

Great post though, photographers in the know can better defend the limited rights we have remaining after the Bush administration was finished gutting the constitution.

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