Police app Videos

I'm surprised the police aren't taking advantage of this. They could just have a couple people every morning going out and making mass reports of police out on the roads. You see cop icons all over the place and you suddenly realize that the icons can't be trusted.

So let me get this straight... Law enforcement is capable of and allowed to keep surveillance of citizens every day and that isn't a problem to them. Then somebody creates an app where citizens can keep surveillance of police, and suddenly it's an issue? Yeah, either keeping unconstitutional surveillance over people is permissible or it's not.

hhhhhhhh, less money for police..

Where I live(TN) police officers was making a car full of guys do jumping jacks because they called him fat after cops called them slobs.Ppl standing accros the street started making vids of this with their phones, not because they were pissed off at the cop,but because there were 6 guys doing jumping jacks next to an interstate.Upon finding out,the officers,took the phones then mailed them back a week later with the vid missing! However audio from the dash cam got him put on a months PAID leave

Whats the app called again?

no video recording ? a student loan ?? u gotta be kidding !! what a police state this is now... I have no reservations with people using extreme force to resist police violence ..they are no longer a legitimate police force they are now a militarized totalitarian terrorist force and deserve no respect or consideration..do what u have to to protect yourself against them..just because they have a badge doesn't make them legit ... u r not morally bound to obey their "authority"

"Officer safety" as a reason for banning Waze is a red herring and total bullshit. Reporting police with Waze is no different than old school CB radio with truckers warning that Smokey's taking pictures. Or one flashing lights to warn of police, another action that police don't like but in most jurisdictions is perfectly legal. If anything, Waze IMPROVES officer safety. Police warnings tend to slow people down and therefor makes things safer for the officer who has someone pulled over.

The ONLY reason the police don't want the citizen to be warned where they are is because if we had that information in real time, we would then be able to avoid the "harassment tax" and this would SEVERELY cut into the local government's revenue stream. My 17 year old niece went to stay with her father for the summer (as she has every year since she was an infant), and was pulled over for some perceived (bogus) infraction. The only thing the cop could write her a ticket for was (according to him) having the "wrong" address on her driver's license. She successfully got this ticket thrown out in court. She lives with her mother but visits her father for the three months in which she has summer break from school. The cop told her that if she were there for longer than 1 month she needs to change her license to the different state and address. While this is the law if you move to that state, this law was not intended to be applied in a case like this (according to the judge she saw) as she did not move there. He also stated that it would be a hardship if she were to have to do this every year, both when she gets there then again when returning home to her mother's state because she would have to do this from the age of 16 until she graduates college. The cop had illegally pulled her over to begin with. He claimed she had a brake light which had burnt out. She did not. Her father is a pilot and has mirrors that hang in his garage to check all his "equipment" before leaving home and this habit had been drilled into her head by him as well. She called the cop on this nonsense and she said "no I don't" because she had just inspected them 10 minutes earlier. She had even asked me to help her install thses types of mirrors at her mother's garage at her house so I know this is an ingrained habit. He then claimed that it appeared to him like she did have a malfunctioning light so he thoroughly inspected that car from top to bottom to find something to write a citation for because he was in the wrong. The only thing he was able to find after walking around that car for 10 minutes, calling the insurance company to verify insurance (after seeing a current insurance card which has her listed as "secondary"), having a police dog sniff around the car for another 15 minutes, running the the plates, checking if the VIN matched the plates, calling her mother to verify she had permission to drive the car, and running her pristine (this is a responsible girl) license for warrants and her record, was that "wrong" address. I mean, he REALLY tried to find something to nail her with because he even checked to make sure she was wearing shoes. The police forces in this country have been reduced to revenue streams for local governments so they do a lot of harassing of citizens who may or may not have committed minor traffic offenses. They can no longer spare officers to investigate as many thefts and other real criminal behavior or even look for as many missing people as they used to. They are busy doing money grabs using traffic stops or by the confiscation of citizen's property without due process to balance the city/county/state budgets. Protect and serve, my ass. There ARE good cops out there but it seems like the good ones are getting to be a minority of them.

The people who drive around in obviously marked cars with lights and sirens attached to them, wearing blue costumes with shiny badges are afraid people might see them? Yeah, I blame the app.

Its a hard call for me I don't know which side I'd be on.

Is there any data showing that citizens knowing where their are police officers are actually endangers the officers? The answer is no. This is a case of the police trying to get rid of laws they have sworn to protect.. Knowing where police are is public knowledge by the way, and there are apps that actually use the police dispatch system to do this and not just word of mouth apps like this because of that fact. The law is like that for a reason, for the department that is policing citizens to remain transparent is important! If they take a right to communicate to each other where police officers are what's next!? Gimmie a break! I can't believe this Gestapo crap! This is America dammit!