Woman arrested for video taping police in Illinois & could get 15yrs

[JEDI]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/08/chicago-district-attorney-recording-bad-cops_n_872921.html

At some point in her conversations with internal affairs investigators, Moore grew frustrated with their attempts to intimidate her. So she began to surreptitiously record the interactions on her Blackberry. In Illinois, it is illegal to record people without their consent, even (and as it turns out, especially) on-duty police officers.

it's legal to record the officer in every state but Massachusetts and Illinois. Arrests still happen in other states, but there's little legal justification for them, and the charges are usually dropped, or never filed at all.

Recording an on-duty police officer in Illinois is a Class 1 felony, the same class of crimes as rape.


She gets 4 to 15 years.
WTF?!

Title edited to reflect reality. She has not been tried yet, let alone sentenced.
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[zzuupp]

At some point in her conversations with internal affairs investigators

this doesn't sound like a third party recording in public

 

[Mike Gayner]

LOLAmerica, enjoy your "freedom".

 

[SunnyD]

It's okay, the Glik case will be over soon enough and she'll be rolling in coin that the state of Illinois doesn't have because of it.

 

[FallenHero]

Illinois has absurd eavesdropping laws on the books. Seriously. Even if you aren't a cop and someone records you, the punishments are severe for that other party. They had to write an exception into the law to allow the police to record traffic stops...thats how locked down it is.

 

[Jimmah]

Welcome to your police state, your country deserves nothing less.

 

[Crono]

LOLAmerica, enjoy your "freedom".

Yes, Illinois is all of America, and yes, this thing happens all the time.

And of course, there won't be any reaction to this law or case at all.

<- Does enjoy freedom in America

 

[Bignate603]

Welcome to your police state, your country deserves nothing less.

Somebody has a chip on their shoulder.

 

[dmcowen674]

It's okay, the Glik case will be over soon enough and she'll be rolling in coin that the state of Illinois doesn't have because of it.

That's the Boston case at the Supreme Court now?

 

[slayer202]

how is anyone involved in passing that law that fucking retarded? it's pathetic that it was allowed to be done, and that someone is actually dealing with the consequences

 

[Spikesoldier]

lol IL.

another reason i will never live there or that shithole chicago.

 

[Miscthree]

Why can't she just take groping from a cop like everyone else and just bend over these days?

Cops can suck sometimes, in any country. But it is the law that truly sucks here.

 

[postmortemIA]

these laws are there to protect corrupt officials...

 

[TheSlamma]

Eleven states currently require that all parties consent to the recording. These states are:

California
Connecticut
Florida
Illinois
Maryland
Massachusetts
Montana
Nevada
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Washington


11 states that need to start petitioning to change garbage laws.

 

[Fenixgoon]

these laws are there to protect corrupt officials...

i was gonna say....it IS illinois

Eleven states currently require that all parties consent to the recording. These states are:

California
Connecticut
Florida
Illinois
Maryland
Massachusetts
Montana
Nevada
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Washington


11 states that need to start petitioning to change garbage laws.

a maryland judge recently ruled that officers have no expectation of privacy while performing their duties in public, and disallowing such sets dangerous precedent for the abuse of power by the police (go figure).

the maryland case was the one where the guy on his motorcycle was pulled over by a plainclothes cop and the cop whipped pulled out his gun without identifying himself as an officer.

 

[Miscthree]

Is this the same law that requires America's Funniest Videos, Amazing Cop Chases etc., shows to have consent from all persons who are in a submitted video?

 

[twinrider1]

I hate Illinois Nazis.

But yea, recording them in an office meeting is different than publicly recording officers in the street.

 

[MotionMan]

These laws are pretty stupid. It is up to the citizens to have them taken off the books. The citizenship can almost always overrule the legislature.

MotionMan

 

[zzuupp]

I hate Illinois Nazis.

But yea, recording them in an office meeting is different than publicly recording officers in the street.

+1

 

[sao123]

I hate Illinois Nazis.

But yea, recording them in an office meeting is different than publicly recording officers in the street.

not if its in her own bathroom.

 

[mcmilljb]

not if its in her own bathroom.

That's not where the recording happened. It probably happened at their office building. The incident that sparked the internal investigation did happen in her bedroom.

 

[SKORPI0]

these laws are there to protect corrupt government officials...

I've yet to find a honest one here in Chicago. WTF happened to "to protect and to serve"? Hope the new mayor can fix this (crosses fingers).

 

[wischeez]

I've yet to find a honest one here in Chicago. WTF happened to "to protect and to serve"? Hope the new mayor can fix this (crosses fingers).

That turned into "Service with Pride" a few years ago. At least that's what it says on the cop cars up here.

 

[Arkaign]

That turned into "Service with Pride" a few years ago. At least that's what it says on the cop cars up here.

To be interpreted as 'serve each other only, fuck the populace'. Illinois is just one of many sections of the US that should be nuked from orbit.

 

[boomhower]

There should be no expectation of privacy while in public by anyone, especially these days. Between security cameras and cell phones you should pretty much expect to be on some kind of recording anytime your out.