Comments on: Chicago police arrest photog, delete images and refuse to return camera

By: scrappy

scrappy — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:59:33 +0000

And do we wonder why chicago police refuse to shoot a tv show like,”cops”or “48″ probably not because the chicago police do not follow proper police standards . years ago friends of city politicians were admitted into the police force by who they knew and for years lots of court cases have been thrown out do to not following proper police procedures with out violating peoples rights,however there are some of these stupid ass cops out here that dont solve any cases and that constantly fuck up and end up working a desk job fucking up police reports cause they cant fuckin spell,couple more years and this wave of fine officers will hopefully be retired and then we might have a t.v series based in chicago. MONIQUE BOND IS AN IDIOT.

By: hamburgler

hamburgler — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:09:50 +0000

the person the officer shot IS NOT A VICTIM but rather an OFFENDER who brought a knife to a gun fight. because this officer had the means available to defend himself does not make the robber with a deadly weapon a victim but yes monique bond is an idiot.

By: Carlos Miller

Carlos Miller — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:31:23 +0000

Jeff,

I’ve been keeping up with that blog post and it’s very refreshing to see that the majority of commenters, many who appear to be officers, also agree that this arrest was BS.

http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2008/11/monique-quashes-1st-amendment.html

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:31:42 +0000

Police State, everyone keeps going on about it. Well it is not anywhere near a police state. If it was, I wouldn’t be able to look at a blog like this. And I will bet you Mr. Burda, that none of those things you mention EVER happen during Obama’s presidency. What the hell is a white revolution anyway?

By: Dave Burda

Dave Burda — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:22:23 +0000

This is how freedom dies in Barack Obama’s America: A police state. First this, next comes the Fairness Doctrine for radio, then they’ll repeal the 2nd Amendment.

The only solution is a white revolution.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:56:06 +0000

This just got picked up by Second City Cop, a blog run by Chicago cops that tends to ruffle the features of the top brass.

They sided with Mike in this case. Consider it a big win, as their typical ire toward the media is pretty legendary.

By: OneByTheCee

OneByTheCee — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:07:05 +0000

When the police illegally keep your lawful property, isn’t that, in effect, stealing?

Why not file a stolen property report and name the police as the thiefs?

By: Jeremy Jojola

Jeremy Jojola — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:42:13 +0000

I would think police would have needed a search warrant to look through the digital contents of his cameras. Also, wouldn’t deleting of the images by police be tampering with evidence too?

This is too absurd and heavy handed.

By: Carlos Miller

Carlos Miller — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:47:21 +0000

discarted,

With all due respect, I first heard of this story when I woke up Thursday morning because I had received a Google alert at 5:31 a.m.

The Google alert included the CBS story, but not your story.

I didn’t post about it that morning because I had plans for the day and I was already running late.

When I got home later that afternoon, I saw that you had sent me a link to your story at 4:37 p.m.

So it is wrong to assume that I was clueless about this story until you made me aware of it.

And I really don’t understand this pissing match that you’re trying to start.

To be honest, once I had interviewed Mike, I wasn’t even going to link to your post because it was already irrelevant.

But the reason I did was because I was impressed that you had actually interviewed Mike instead of just cutting and pasting the story like most bloggers do.

But now that you’re getting technical about it, your writer missed some of the crucial elements of this story, such as the fact that Mike was able to retrieve his images (or at least was going to attempt to retrieve them).

Your writer also buried the fact that police were refusing to return his video camera, which is a significant part of the story.

And she completely missed the part that it was a civilian – not a cop – who gave him the initial order to stop filming.

As I said, your story was already irrelevant once I had written my story.