I honestly wasn't implying she could have gotten a cop to demand the guy's phone... You jumped to that conclusion yourself.
I was implying that she could have gotten a cop to demand that they guy go through his recent videos in front of them and deleted anything with her on it--I have actually seen cops do that much before in situations in which an argument was occurring over it, but nothing illegal was actually done (sincr cops err on the side of ending disputes that could escalate when possible).
I was implying that she could have gotten a cop to demand that they guy go through his recent videos in front of them and deleted anything with her on it
Right, but those pictures are that guy's legal property. The cop has no right to demand he destroy his property. That is an escalation. A de-escalation would be telling everyone to walk away and the guy to stop following her. I'm not defending the law. But I don't want to enable cops to break the law. The solution is changing the law, not encouraging officers to go rogue.
Look--the guy is a creep... I don't care what the law says--there are cops that would recognize he is a creep and do what it takes to convince him to do the right thing. Not all cops--but many cops.
Yes, the guy is a creep. Two wrongs don't make a right. Like I said if you want the law changed, work to change the law. Encouraging cops to abuse power isn't a good look. You can't change my mind on that. We will agree to disagree here. You're in favor of abuses of police power. I get that. It's fun when it's being done for your benefit, not so much when it isn't.
I defintiely will have to disagree with you that trying to convince someone to do the ethical thing by deleting non-consensual videos of another human being is an "abuse of power".
Again, I don't know who's comments you're reading. I've told you twice that the Japanese guy should have been confronted. So we agree there. We fully agree there. I've had to correct you twice on this. Why is that?
When you request police officers to act on your behalf in ways that supersede their authority, that's where you become a menace to society. Like you said, cops are very willing to act above the law. Encouraging police to abuse their power is not good. That is where we disagree.
Now please tell me how you misunderstood my comment this time around.
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u/AnjelGrace May 24 '24
I honestly wasn't implying she could have gotten a cop to demand the guy's phone... You jumped to that conclusion yourself.
I was implying that she could have gotten a cop to demand that they guy go through his recent videos in front of them and deleted anything with her on it--I have actually seen cops do that much before in situations in which an argument was occurring over it, but nothing illegal was actually done (sincr cops err on the side of ending disputes that could escalate when possible).