Person deliberately acts suspicious in person... Cop investigates......
Everyone..... OMG, bleepng pigs, stop harassing people!
Suspicious guy does something horrendous in public
Everyone... Omg... Why didn't the police do anything?
Can't stand these guys.
It takes a special kind of narcissist to go out deliberately looking for interactions with law enforcement so you can get views on your channel
I understand your perspective. People will often call 9-1-1 because some guys with cameras are recording... Meanwhile, the public buildings and private buildings all around them are recording them but it's only a problem when citizens do it? "Suspicious" is not a misdemeanor or a felony and is not enough to legally require I.D.
Then the cops come to respond to the call/investigate and overstep their authority by demanding I.D. from the auditor. They are certainly allowed to ask for I.D. but not demand unless they have "reasonable articulable suspicion" (RAS). The people who are paid to enforce our laws don't even know the laws they are supposed to enforce.
It's not even all on the cops either. The public is either not informed or misinformed about the law as well. There is no expectation of privacy in public. I get that it could be annoying to some random person recording you in public, but what I don't understand is why they claim they are in fear of someone recording them, yet they run up to the camera and start picking a fight with the auditor. If I don't want to be on someone's camera in public, I'm going to kindly get out of the area... We don't get to break the law or take anyone's rights away simply because we are uncomfortable.