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[oxymoronia]

Body-building cop's day in court turns ugly

Using evidence drawn from the policeman's online social networking activities, Adrian Lesher of the Legal Aid Society cast enough doubt on the policeman's character to have a jury dismiss a serious charge against his client, Gary Waters

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[cloudevangelion]

privacy is a lost concept

[oxymoronia]

On the upside it keeps us on our toes... or maybe that's what they're trying to achieve. Self-governance!

[cloudevangelion]

nothing like big brother to scare the living shit out of you into doing what you should have done in the first had big brother not been there to correct you

[merle_]

Wow, that's better than the sausage-pony. I will have to remember that defence for when.. oh, wait, it didn't work out for him. Bummer. ;-)

[oxymoronia]

Even a small freakish sausage pony isn't capable of projecting multiple personas!

[ext_90340]

The end result will be that all but the most foolish of police officers will become far more guarded about what they say on the 'Net.

As to the officer's reference to locker rooms, it seems to me that, while some guys may engage in rôle-playing peculiar to the locker room, most people reset their presumptions and expectations about their own behavior based upon what is said and done around them, and if there's chatter in the police locker room about how to plant evidence or get away with acts of brutality, presented in any way that isn't utterly over-the-top, then some of the officers are going to become more inclined to actually engage in such acts.

We have, indeed, seen that police departments can go bad, with most or all of the officers corrupted, as if pathological attitudes are contagious.

[oxymoronia]

That's a good point, in these situations there's an element of herd mentality so it can take little to start a mass-shift in one direction.