Just another example of sloppy police work and what some are also calling illegal police work.
A graffiti artist in Grand Forks B.C. gets a police visit for an imaginary grow-op. The police see the graffiti type stuff. The police then set up two automated 'wild life' imaging cameras in a tree(apparently on private property, even though putting it on public property could be called an invasion of privacy and also warrants need to be issued for, and specific for the action). The police forget to turn off the 'flash' settings. Artist notices the flashes. Artist gets the two cameras and gives them to his Lawyer. Police now upset that their cameras have been confiscated by the people of B.C.(held in trust by a Lawyer who knows crime laws are meant to apply to all people, no matter what fancy clothes the person is wearing).
Also can't forget to mention, is that there were some various graphic images on the data cards from other police crime investigations. Ooooop's.
The police keep forgetting to 'not do the crime, if they do not want to be exposed for their corruption'.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/11/15/bc-rcmp-surveillance-cameras-found.html?cmp=rss
Nordick said he believes the RCMP installed the cameras in the trees because he is a graffiti artist and they wanted to track his movements to help determine if he had been spray-painting tags around the community.
He said RCMP raided his home in June and told the local media they found evidence of a grow-op, but no actual marijuana plants.
They also found spray paint and stencils, which they took, he said.
Jesse Gelber, a lawyer for Dion Nordick, sits with one of the RCMP cameras that the Grand Forks, B.C., man seized from trees outside his trailer home. Nordick said he gave the cameras to his lawyer, Jesse Gelber, who said police had no right to be on the property installing surveillance cameras.
“Generally, police don’t have judicial authorization on private land. That’s not legal; that’s trespass,” said Gelber.
CBC news video.
http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/1221254309/ID=2167861195
Here is an article from the U.S. on how videoing the police is your Right(also known as Canadians Right of 'freedom of communication'. Also known as protection from 'unlawful search and seizure' of your evidence). You can deny the police from taking the 'video evidence', as you are protecting it for the court case(mention needing a 'on the spot warrant' to make sure others know of the 'evidence', which still could 'accidentally delete' during the transfer, even with a warrant and even with you watching officer fumble thumbs doing it). Do not allow the police to 'confiscate' your video recorder under the guise of "just have to make a copy, oooop's accidentally deleted all the data you stupid citizen". Please act like a Lawyer to protect your court admissible evidence from the possible destruction of the evidence by the guilty parties(namely the police officers who committed the crime that you recorded them doing). Offer to make the police a copy of the video, that will be delivered to them by sometime the next day.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/obama-administration-says-constitution-protects-cell-phone-recordings.ars
Have you found the police committing illegal acts against you or other people? Contact the BC Civil Liberties Association for help.
http://bccla.org/
