ACLU Launches Smartphone App That Lets Users Secretly Record Police Stops
WELL IT'S FINALLY COME TO THIS IN AMERICA 'THE LAND OF THE FREE'  WE HAVE TO  SECRETLY  RECORD OUR CRIMINAL POLICE TO PROTECT OURSELVES FROM PROSECUTION FOR RECORDING THE POLICE
Citizens can hold police accountable in the palms of their hands with "Police Tape," a smartphone application from the ACLU  that allows people to securely record and store interactions with police, as well as provide legal information about citizens' rights when interacting with the police. The American Civil Liberties Union has taken its mission of policing the police to smartphones. The ACLU has released an app called “Police Tape” that lets users secretly record police stops. The ACLU’s Alexander Shalom said the app is easy to use. “There’s really only three buttons that the user needs to deal with,” Shalom said. “There’s a know your rights button that educates the citizen about their rights when encountering police on the street, in a car, in their home or when they’re going to be placed under arrest, and there’s a button to record audio and a button to record video.    ”The app lets users record audio and video discretely with a stealth mode that hides the fact that the recording is happening. “Unlike a recording that’s just done in the standard camera or video mode on someone’s telephone, it’s a little more complicated to find these files and delete them. So it can theoretically be done but it would take a far more tech-savvy police officer to do it,”