WRITTEN ON May 19th, 2005 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
In an exemplary piece of sousveillance a 16 year old Kurd recorded two and a half minutes of swearing, abuse and threats of racist violence by the arresting police on his mobile phone. After this was played in court the evidence of the arresting officer was dismissed as unreliable, and the suspect went free.
“Respect is not something you get by putting on a uniform,” commented the judge. “I believe respect should be earned.”
Rather than assuming we want universal central control, Wibbi…the techniques of surveillance were used in a balanced way to provide reciprocal transparency?
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http://www.anonequity.org/weblog/
the anoequity persons have a great blog that may be of interest to your current project:
this is an image from the 1970’s and reflects surveillance and strip searching during the hight of the northern ireland confict.
http://wearcam.org/wsd_stefanos_pantagis_pictures/stef_stop_strip_search/
also, please link the actual article from the bbc so i can link on to my blog the article: cant seem to find it today in the news.
http://stefanospantagis.net/journal/archives/2005/05/self_surveillan.html
you may also find Jill’s art work interesting: I think she is in liverpool and available by email for questions, and insights.
Stefanos – The Beeb had a good audio recording of it…but they seem to take these down after a couple of days I’m afraid. Hence my inept “copy/paste link” giving that dud. Not yet worked out how to get round that. -W
Correction – it’s at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4561131.stm
Corrected on blog also. Thx W
David Copperfield adds –
These days, with 3G it’s all too common. There’s one persistent complainer round here who insists you sit in a chair so that you can be filmed the whole time you are in his house. I just try to think that I’m being filmed and recorded the whole time. There’s currently a IPCC complaint involving officers from Peterborough or TVP who were filmed by a subject during a stop search that went wrong. Needless to say it doesn’t do anyone any favours.