I bought two cheap dash cams from Amazon. They shipped from China. They were 14.99 each. You get a cam, suction cup, and cig. Lighter plug. I bought two because I keep one in the in the car in case one breaks.(you need to buy a sd card). It's been a year, and no pullovers? The cam is holding up just fine. It loops. You will forget it's there. It goes on when you start the car. It will stay on when the officer tells you to turn off the vehicle.(need to program it though).
Cops have stopped pulling me over for no reason. Before the cam, I was getting pulled over for driving an old car, or I was driving between 10 p.m. - 2:30 a.m.? I wish I had these cams when I was younger. Could have saved a lot of pointless questions, and aggravation?
I'm a white guy who's been pulled over so many times for no reason--I lost count; I can't imagine what minorites have to go through? We should be able to drive without that constant fear of harassment. Harrasement is being pulled over for made up reasons? Cams have helped in my world. They have worked so well, I thinking about mounting a rear cam? "See them coming and going?" Sorry, if I sound jaded, but I live in a low crime area. Cops have become revenue collects here.
(Also white). In my 20s, I used to get pulled over a couple times per year. Maybe 10-15% of those resulted in tickets.
Now (in my 40s)? I get stopped every 4-5 years.
What's different? I grew up, got married, had kids and, most importantly, stopped driving like a jackass.
I don't doubt for a second that some people get stopped a lot, and that some of those stops are for "thin" or distasteful reasons. However, my experience is that keeping your car registration current and not drawing attention to yourself with aggressive driving goes a long way to not meeting the police on the side of the road.
> I'm a white guy who's been pulled over so many times for no reason
Is there a correlation here?
Where I'm from you don't get pulled over for anything. The roads are a free-for-all wild west: taxis stop in the middle of the road in front of you for no reason. So many people die on the road every year. If you do get pulled over for a misdemeanor there is a good chance you can talk or bribe your way out of it and carry on with your reckless driving.
I would happily take a ticket for failing to indicate.
That is different from racial profiling and hate crimes. Don't confuse hard working cops doing their job with idiots with badges and guns.
Since you didn't indicate where you're actually from, I'm not sure what to make of your anecdotes. I'm from a small town in Indiana that has/had very little actual crime and yet a relatively large police force. When I was a minor I was harassed multiple times by police for violating curfew. Took a few rides in a cop car for nothing other than being out past 11pm. In 2004, some of Indiana's curfew laws were struck down by the federal supreme court, but that didn't stop the bastards, and new laws keep coming. Have a look at the mess here:
Having been on the receiving end of (just a little) police harassment, it's very easy to see how aggressive policing has led to tragedies like this one and countless others. Cops deal with a lot of bad characters, but it seems they're too often looking for trouble when they harass people like this.
3rd world. It would be pointless to divulge more because: people would have a hard time believing it, it would detract from what happened to Sandra and it's quite off-topic. The core of the point is that there are good cops and bad cops.
> I was harassed multiple times by police for violating curfew.
There's a line. Harassment/your experience is firmly on the wrong side of the line. Being kindly escorted home during a lawful curfew is not the wrong side of the line. I'd happily oblige to the later: the cop is just doing his job.
What I'm really trying to say is: the American police force seems so have a bunch of bad apples, however, you really don't want to tie the hands of the good apples.
Tricky. It needs to upload video in realtime, otherwise they can just take the camera. You could equip it with its own SIM card, but won't that be prohibitively expensive?
I suppose the sim part could be done via bluetooth to the phone in your pocket. Airtime could be minimized by only uploading after hitting the panic button, so even if they notice the camera and confiscate the physical recording, you've got something up to the cop reaching for it uploaded.
Cops have stopped pulling me over for no reason. Before the cam, I was getting pulled over for driving an old car, or I was driving between 10 p.m. - 2:30 a.m.? I wish I had these cams when I was younger. Could have saved a lot of pointless questions, and aggravation?
I'm a white guy who's been pulled over so many times for no reason--I lost count; I can't imagine what minorites have to go through? We should be able to drive without that constant fear of harassment. Harrasement is being pulled over for made up reasons? Cams have helped in my world. They have worked so well, I thinking about mounting a rear cam? "See them coming and going?" Sorry, if I sound jaded, but I live in a low crime area. Cops have become revenue collects here.