Question: What happens when you video tape a police officer acting improperly?

Answer: You get arrested!

Apparently this was illegal for him to do, yet I was reading a story a couple weeks ago where a man was improperly treated (tortured?) by police officers trying to get him to sign a consent to have his house searched. The wife had set up a tape recorder in this instance, so the whole thing was on tape.

If a cop can't behave properly, he shouldn't be a cop. When someone is charged with a crime for getting evidence of a cop not behaving properly, he shouldn't be arrested for getting proof of it.

Of course I guess this simply goes to show that the only time cops behave is when they are knowingly being recorded. Otherwise you're pretty much screwed, because if secretly recording them is a crime, then there is NOTHING you can damn well do about it without being arrested...