| | Actually, publicity might solve a lot of this. What if the whole world was watching?
Clearly, a lot of the time, someone in the local area will have a cell phone with video capture, and, as bandwidth improves, this will become the norm. Unfortunately, here in California, as I understand the current law, the idiots in Sacramento have elevated the "right to privacy" to a position above the right to self-defense.
I.e., if you record or netcast live video of someone committing a crime or behaving in a reprehensible way with a child or threatening you personally, then you had better cut out the audio, or you can be prosecuted under California law, which grants a special privilege to privacy of speech. Even in cases in which people were directly threatened, the courts have ruled that not only is the speech not admisable as evidence, but that also the victim of the threat may be prosecuted criminally for making the recording.
Interestingly, this does not apply to employers recording employees, but it does apply to employees recording employers.
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