Need Public Help: Our local police dept. is encountering an ambush tactic. Tiny cameras hidden in license plates hooked up to monitors inside the car to see approaching officers walking up to the car. Brainstorm please: How to disengage the camera or the image BEFORE officer gets out his car? I'm thinking a blinding halogen light fixed on the lens or frequency jam. Any other feasible and cheap ideas?
Thank you for your help!
2007-11-16 02:42:15 · 7 answers · asked by megbeg6 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Edited question: Tiny camera placed on backside of cars (not a car dealer backup camera) disguised/embedded within the blue lettering of license plate. Officer pulls car over for a traffic violation at night and before exiting his car sees camera. Multiple monitors also have been discovered on backs of seats within car. Poorly cut and inserted into the seats. Driver and passengers are known gang members(learned after the stop). Officer is alone in the traffic stop. How can officer temporarily disengage the stopped vehicle's hidden camera while safely approaching the vehicle on foot without touching it but allowing the camera to continue to work after stop is completed? The purpose of this question is to protect officer safety on a traffic stop at night without being ambushed by surprise because passengers have advantage of officer's distance to car.
I'm not police officer.
2007-11-16 04:25:16 · update #1
They could pull up so close that the camera would not see anything except the front of the police car!
2007-11-16 02:48:30 · answer #1 · answered by suzyQ™ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How is this an ambush tactic? Are they sitting in the car with their bodies down so you can't see them? Acting like an abandoned car you are going up to check and then all jumping out? I mean really you aren't giving enough information as to how this is an ambush thing, I mean yeah I stretched to where it could be but not most would take time to think something like that. So if that is the case try slowly riding beside the "abandoned" car and have a partner that is flashing a light to look in the car, if at night otherwise you could just look in and see that it is empty. If it is empty then back in behind it or drive around it or whatever is best.
Oh and if you pulled them over then they will KNOW you are going to approach the car, so that would be silly to try to avoid them detecting you.
2007-11-16 03:52:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why do you need to disengage the cameras? You don't want the officer to be seen approaching the vehicle? Why?
Many vehicles now have a rear-facing camera to aid in backing.
2007-11-16 03:01:26 · answer #3 · answered by dos 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have no legal right to do this. To try would be a felony. An officer never has any right to privacy on the job, especially when encountering a citizen on the street on in their house. I have the full right to tape your and even publish it without your consent.
And - there is really no way to disable these cameras short of breaking the law. (by damaging them). Do you really want to lose your badge? (or perhaps you deserve to lose your badge)
2007-11-16 03:13:19 · answer #4 · answered by Mr. PhD 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Just aim a laser beam down the lens and the camera will be inoperable! Of course they will shoot you thinking your aiming something else their way!
2007-11-16 07:57:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If the cop is that scared, call for backup...
if he is honest in his dealing with the car's occupants,who cares what is recorded ?
2007-11-16 07:56:15 · answer #6 · answered by sirbobby98121 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
a pointer laser.
2007-11-16 03:34:33 · answer #7 · answered by Tacit Hue 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋