Store Video Surveillance

Marp · ‎03-09-2010

Did you hear the one about the cops not wanting to use a store's surveillance tape to help solve a crime?

Who could blame these Santa Ana cops? Video shows them smashing surveillance cameras, badmouthing a woman in a wheelchair, and perhaps even munching on marijuana-infused products after they stormed a medical marijuana shop in Southern California, which was being investigated for allegedly operating unlawfully in the city.

Three of the unidentified cops are demanding that a judge block the police department from using the tapes against them as the department investigates the officers' conduct during the May raid. The cops at the center of the investigation say the Sky High Medical Marijuana Dispensary illegally recorded them because the officers believed they had disabled all the store's cameras and therefore had an expectation of privacy "that their conversations were no longer being recorded," according to the cops' Aug. 5 lawsuit. (PDF) The suit says the tapes were also "edited" and cannot be relied upon.

A hearing on the issue is scheduled for Monday in Orange County Superior Court.

The dispensary's attorney, Matthew Pappas, said in a telephone interview with Ars that "there is nothing doctored in those videos. Those videos are what the officers did."

"If officers concerned about the video showing something done being bad by them, they should not have broken the law during the raid," Pappas said.

The video shows the officers breaking through the door, ordering everybody down to the ground at gunpoint. The officers are also recorded playing darts and perhaps eating edible marijuana products. Two of them also joked about a wheelchair-bound amputee who was at the shop.

More: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/cops-filmed-behaving-badly-say-pot-shops-camera-illegally...

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betteb · ‎03-09-2010

Holy ca-rap! Shocked Smiley.jpg

Excuse me, but those idiots must have some big brass ones to try and pull that off. Unbelievable.

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Adelina · ‎05-02-2015

OMG! Unbelievable!

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kdgn · ‎03-09-2010

Not the brightest bulbs on the force? Their behavior reflects badly on the good LE officers of Santa Ana and that's a shame.

tansy · ‎01-02-2011

LOL. How does the lawyer keep a straight face while making that request? 🙀

Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

What is going on with police officers these days !?

Sounds to me like the training for police needs to be SERIOUSLY re-vamped.

Marp · ‎03-09-2010

Better training is needed but IMO better psychological and personality evaluations of applicants are even more important. I'm guessing the red flags most PDs are looking for are decades old and don't take today's societal changes and resultant red flags into account.

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Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

Santa Ana's finest?

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NoelSeven · ‎03-09-2010

@Marp wrote:
Better training is needed but IMO better psychological and personality evaluations of applicants are even more important. I'm guessing the red flags most PDs are looking for are decades old and don't take today's societal changes and resultant red flags into account.

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I'm with you, this isn't about training, it's about hiring bullies, criminals and misfits to be cops.

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