Cop pulls over man for speeding, livestreams the encounter on Tik Tok - revealing ID info

[thewayne]

Unbelievable. He wasn't speeding and was using cruise control when he was pulled over. Cop lets him go with a verbal warning. Turns out the cop was live-streaming on Tik Tok and showed the guy's drivers license. A little later he receives a message on Facebook that tracked him from the Tik Tok feed.

The guy filed a complaint with the Dallas County Sheriff's Department, the investigation resulted in the officer being suspended for two days without pay. Now the guy is suing for emotional distress, invasion of privacy, etc.

A two day suspension? That's a firing offense IMO, to violate someone's privacy like that. Either management didn't think it was worth firing over, or the union blocked it.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/man-claims-cop-pulled-him-over-just-to-stream-a-traffic-stop-on-tiktok/

Comments

[silveradept]

Pretty much. If the stories I've heard of of military recruiting are true, and their having trouble filling the ranks with quality people (because quality people aren't choosing the military over politics or all the stories about what the military does on a regular basis,) I can only guess what of the dregs police departments have to work with, given how much they're involved in corruption and violence and a complete lack of public service.

[thewayne]

This is why I like the European way of populating police departments.  Their academies are not 4-6 months of training, it's 2-4 YEARS.  It's like college, and you are very thoroughly trained by the time that you leave.  Among the reasons I'd like to move to Germany or elsewhere is to try and get back in working IT at a police dept: much more professional orgs.