Free dashcams issued by police for Operation Snap

[TheInternet]

Free dashcams to be offered to Hull-area motorists to record driving offences

I don't have time to write a full post on this but some bullet points to get you started:

Good
Nothing to hide nothing to fear
Stasi
Snitches
Cuts
Real policing
DCWs
Cycling nazis

[Triumph Man]

I recently had a letter through the door from the police as someone had caught me doing something a little "naughty" on their Dashcam. Thankfully I have been offered a course.

What they forgot to do was clip the registration number from the stills they sent me, and whilst I wouldn't do anything nefarious with this information, I do recall the car and their driving previous wasn't exactly exemplary...

[TheInternet]

Triumph Man said:

I do recall the car and their driving previous wasn't exactly exemplary...

Get yourself a free dashcam and fill your boots.

[Dannbodge]

My wife got reported from a dashcam clip and ended up on a course as well.

Wasn't even anything remotely bad or dangerous.

[vikingaero]

They could probably double up on the convictions by viewing the whole dashcam footage before the incident and convicting the DCW as well.

[Glenn63]

Triumph Man said:

I recently had a letter through the door from the police as someone had caught me doing something a little "naughty" on their Dashcam. Thankfully I have been offered a course.

What they forgot to do was clip the registration number from the stills they sent me, and whilst I wouldn't do anything nefarious with this information, I do recall the car and their driving previous wasn't exactly exemplary...

This is the main issue with these, people driving poorly, extremely slowly, purposely annoying people so when the person overtakes then can desperately hit the save button and get some pathetic pleasure out of sending it to police with the previous 20 mins of their own ste driving cut from the video.

[ecsrobin]

Glenn63 said:

This is the main issue with these, people driving poorly, extremely slowly, purposely annoying people so when the person overtakes then can desperately hit the save button and get some pathetic pleasure out of sending it to police with the previous 20 mins of their own ste driving cut from the video.

Yep. Some of the worst driving I’ve seen is cars fitted with dashcams. It’s like people think with it fitted they’re invincible.

[ferret50]

Snitches get stitches....

[GeniusOfLove]

What a wonderful development, adding to what a pleasant place to live this country has become.

[BoRED S2upid]

[jhonn]

Question. ( I honestly don't know) - can the police prosecute from dashcam footage sent in by a member of the public? I'd have thought with the advent of CGI, video editing, IA, etc, that it could not be assumed that footage hadn't been tampered with. Or, would the onus be on the perpetrator to prove it hadn't been tampered with/made up maliciously?

[doogle83]

vikingaero said:

They could probably double up on the convictions by viewing the whole dashcam footage before the incident and convicting the DCW as well.

Absolutely this!

[e-honda]

I think you lost an N in one of those

[DaveCWK]

Vigilante police-endorsed dashcam warriors driving in their unique style in order to provoke other motorists into making mistakes is not good for anybody.

[J4CKO]

Ahh, more tragic individuals desperate to arrive at the location of their next masterpiece.

The thing with a dashcam is to fit it and forget its there, if you have an accident you have the footage, if you are ranting at someone shouting "DASH CAM" whilst furiously pointing at it you are probably someone who is too invested in the whole thing having saved up to get one and are now ready to take on the world even if it means contriving incidents.

[Terminator X]

Police do your job. Anyone helping them out is a feckless tt imho

TX.

[Master Bean]

YOUR ON CAMRA.

[Unreal]

If someone did record you and their evidence was used as the almost exclusive prosecution evidence, would you not have the right to know the person's identity, assuming you went to court and didn't accept a summary fine?

[shtu]

jhonn said:

Question. ( I honestly don't know) - can the police prosecute from dashcam footage sent in by a member of the public? I'd have thought with the advent of CGI, video editing, AI, etc, that it could not be assumed that footage hadn't been tampered with. Or, would the onus be on the perpetrator to prove it hadn't been tampered with/made up maliciously?

As a starter, I would settle for "submitter must include an uninterrupted 5 minutes of video prior to the reported incident". That would stop most of the DCWs in their tracks.

[grumbledoak]

A predictable development. You can be quite sure all the right sort of people will be fitting these, and no doubt using them completely objectively and impartially.