{"id":54175,"date":"2023-01-30T18:37:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T23:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54175"},"modified":"2023-01-31T05:49:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T10:49:07","slug":"usa-today-a-camera-mounted-on-a-light-pole-took-video-of-police-beating-tyre-nichols-what-to-know-about-skycop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54175","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: A camera mounted on a light pole took video of police beating Tyre Nichols. What to know about &#8216;SkyCop.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>USA Today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/camera-mounted-light-poll-took-204955870.html\">A camera mounted on a light pole took video of police beating Tyre Nichols. What to know about &#8216;SkyCop.&#8217;<\/a> by Claire Thornton:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Three of the four police videos released Friday were captured via officers&#8217; body cameras. But one of the videos showed a more sweeping view of officers punching and kicking Nichols.<\/p><p>It was taken from farther away by a &#8220;SkyCop&#8221; camera mounted on a light pole, and shows multiple officers violently push Nichols to the ground and kick him in the face. Memphis has a network of the cameras, which were intended to help police catch criminals and to deter crime.<\/p><p>. . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Memphis isn&#8217;t alone in using the technology. Besides the Memphis police department, law enforcement in West Memphis, Arkansas; Blytheville, Arkansas, and Little Rock, Arkansas, have used SkyCop surveillance technology.<\/p><p>Similar technology has been deployed in other cities including, Atlanta, Baltimore and Santa Fe, New Mexico.<\/p><p>Previously, privacy watchdogs \u2013 including the American Civil Liberties Union&#8217;s Center for Democracy \u2013 have expressed alarm about such systems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>[Over 45 years ago, well before I wrote the first edition of search and seizure, I remember being appalled that the Cities of New York and New Orleans was putting some cameras on poles to monitor crime on the streets.  I even wrote a letter to the editor about the invasion of privacy of watching someone in a public place.  We had a subjective expectation of privacy in a public place.  So I thought in the mid-1970s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cameras and recorders were nothing by today&#8217;s standards.  And so was the &#8220;reasonable expectation of privacy.&#8221; How far we&#8217;ve come, and how far technology has come.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today: A camera mounted on a light pole took video of police beating Tyre Nichols. What to know about &#8216;SkyCop.&#8217; by Claire Thornton:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pole-cameras","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54179,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54175\/revisions\/54179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}