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The best thing about the TV show "Cops" is is forces the police officers on the show to actually be good, be clean and do their job properly. I think every police unit should be filmed by cops 24/7. Who watches the watchers? Everyone - it's prime time TV!
Except, as this video illustrates, all we need now is people with video devices - they are the new "Cops" unit. Police learned that with rodney king, who knows who might be videotaping you from their house. Now police, and other "quasi-police" like organizations (security officers, etc), will learn that video cameras are everywhere, and generally people expect you to be a reincarnation of every bad police officer, so you can fully expect to be video taped.
To a more knowledgeable person - what are the specific laws on the police sizing of video and photographic devices? If I am taking pictures or videos of police activity on a street, what things can they legally do? On private property, it should be the domain of the property owner/management, correct? In public it should be completely legal, no?
