Summer Heat

  • Law
  • Metro announced it is increasing the cost for the public to obtain body-cam footage to $280 for an hour of footage. [RJ]
  • Here’s Orrin J. H. Johnson on getting jury trials going again. [TNI]
  • Not Vegas, but the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York is out. [ABC News]
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
June 22, 2020 4:40 pm

Thanks, Metro, for rationally adding fuel to the fire.

Snoop Dog
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Snoop Dog
June 22, 2020 4:43 pm

Those twerkin videos gonna be off the hizzie, yo.
World star in the house
$280 an hour, sheeeeiitttt. Ima turn round and sell em for triple.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
June 22, 2020 5:08 pm

$280 an hour for them not to turn their cameras when they beat up John Piro, just awful.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
June 22, 2020 6:51 pm
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I didn't see any accounts where they 'beat up' John Piro. Did I miss it?

Anonymous
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Anonymous
June 22, 2020 7:04 pm
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It was a joke.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
June 22, 2020 5:17 pm

The body can situation, when implemented, was a public relations approach to make METRO look more responsive and transparent.

But give with one hand, take away with the other.

It's a slap in the face of transparency and accountability to then turn around and greatly increase the prize.

This wouldn't be some big issue if it was increased from, let's say, $240. to $280. That's a supportable administrative/bureaucratic increase.

But to jump all the way from $48. to $280. results in holding up a neon sign announcing that they want to make it as difficult as possible for people to order such footage.

So, 9:40 is on the money.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
June 22, 2020 11:09 pm

Orrin had me for about half of his article. Then he get's into false equivalencies, like jury duty is the same as (or at least comparable to) people going to a restaurant. No. People who choose to go to a restaurant are doing just that – choosing. Being compelled by the government to congregate in an indoor room with a bunch of other random people during a pandemic is the government forcing that risk on someone that might have been hypervigilant about keeping their distance.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
June 23, 2020 12:06 am

Dear Lord. Tried to access the Secretary of State's website, so I can renew stuff, get copies of stuff, etc.

"The web server for the domain http://www.nvsos.gov is unable to respond at this time. The origin is having network or application issues."

QL
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QL
June 23, 2020 4:34 pm
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Anonymous
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June 23, 2020 2:47 pm

Come on Metro, stop acting like a guilty party. If Metro doesn't like the scrutiny, how about better training, more restraint, less treating the public as the enemy to be controlled?

Anonymous
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Anonymous
June 23, 2020 4:59 pm

Our current Secretary of State is inept and needs to be replaced. A total disaster.