Guy videos cops breaking the law

[Bee_Jay]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...

NEW YORK -- He calls himself "Jimmy Justice," a self-styled "cop-arazzi," armed only with a video camera as he prowls the streets of New York looking for law enforcement officers who are breaking the law. His targets are illegally parked city government vehicles -- particularly cars of traffic cops blocking bus stops, sitting in "no parking" zones or double-parked.

Good work fella! Could do with someone like that over here videoing illegally parked scamera vans for a start...

[Pesty]

wow I guess cops really do eat a lot of dohnuts over there. Good job she has a car shes never going to out run anyone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf-tcjc87hw

[alfabadass]

IMO most police officers are decent and will 90% of the time let you off with a warning for parking/traffic offences. It's the damn council/civil enforcement/clamper types that give the police a bad name, they show no discretion at all from experience.

End of the day, a police vehicle should be allowed to park any where.

[Pesty]

alfabadass said:

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End of the day, a police vehicle should be allowed to park any where.

would you say that if your house was buring down and they were blocking the hydrant like in some of his clips just so they could get food?

[DJFish]

The fuzz are allowed to park anywhere, subject to a few caveats.

There was a chap a while back who made a tv programme about bad parking around Saville Row nick, don't know what became of him, either got a life or fell down the stairs presumably.

[Blue Meanie]

alfabadass said:

End of the day, a police vehicle should be allowed to park any where.

On a call, certainly... Not to pop in for a sandwich, or a doughnut. As Jimmy Justice says, they would give us tickets for that.

[randomman]

Good luck to him, although it wont be long before the Nazi's strike back

http://www.tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/ma...

[Dunk76]

Did you look at the cop 'getting knocked over' by a cyclist in New York?

Whilst some British Bobbies can be complete idiots, I've not seen that sort of behaviour over here since the early 80s!

[Pot Bellied Fool]

Pesty said:

would you say that if your house was buring down and they were blocking the hydrant like in some of his clips just so they could get food?

Then I'd expect the Fire Department to do this...

[eightseventhree]

Plus over here the plod think that filming them is a terrorist activity

[big_rob_sydney]

eightseventhree said:

Plus over here the plod think that filming them is a terrorist activity

Are you in Australia? Sounds like a reaction from NSW police. Even taking a photo of them is risky.

[neilr]

alfabadass said:

IMO most police officers are decent and will 90% of the time let you off with a warning for parking/traffic offences. It's the damn council/civil enforcement/clamper types that give the police a bad name, they show no discretion at all from experience.

End of the day, a police vehicle should be allowed to park any where.

To have the police '..allowed to park anywhere" is ludicrous. They are the police, and as can be seen on any day of the week, they flout the fact that they are employed to uphold the law. They need to adhear to the letter of the law and be seen to be whiter then white if they expect any to receive any respect from the public. Lets face it, they're quick enough to come down on us for minor infractions.

As for 90% being decent and 'will 90% of the time let you off with a warning for parking/traffic offences.." what planet are you living on? I'd like to move there.

[sleep envy]

Bee_Jay said:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...

NEW YORK -- He calls himself "Jimmy Justice," a self-styled "cop-arazzi," armed only with a video camera as he prowls the streets of New York looking for law enforcement officers who are breaking the law. His targets are illegally parked city government vehicles -- particularly cars of traffic cops blocking bus stops, sitting in "no parking" zones or double-parked.

Good work fella! Could do with someone like that over here videoing illegally parked scamera vans for a start...

was sat in traffic waiting to turn right at a T junction when a parking attendant turned up on a scooter, parked it on double yellows to ticket a car also parked on the same double yellows

he didn't seem too happy when I took a couple of pics of him and asked him for his badge number

Edited by sleep envy on Tuesday 5th August 16:09