7 Rules for Recording Police

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As you know, the net is full of "alleged" recordings of Police doing their job. Or not doing their job...
If you are in the position of trying your hand at recording something like this, you need to keep a few things in mind:

Last week the City of Boston agreed to pay Simon Glik $170,000 in damages and legal fees to settle a civil rights lawsuit stemming from his 2007 felony arrest for videotaping police roughing up a suspect. Prior to the settlement, the First Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that Glik had a “constitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties in public.” The Boston Police Department now explicitly instructs its officers not to arrest citizens openly recording them in public.

I won't list the 7 'rules' here, check the link for those, and the source for the above quoted:

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It's of course worth noting that all 7 rules, if not most, are common sense.