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-> RW>Now, we both know that probably 99.999% of the LEOs out
->   >there want nothing more then to do their job and go
->   >home every day.  But there is and always will be that
->   >small number that forces all of us, LEOs and LACs, to
->   >keep a bright light on all of them.
-> CH> O.K.; but now you are talking about exceptions to the rule.
-> But w/o being able to see what is happening and what
-> all of them are doing you will have a very hard time
-> finding this exception.
-> Here is an example.  An officer heard on the scanner
-> saying, and I'm paraphrasing here, that he was going to
-> find SOMETHING to arrest this a$$hole for.  Referring
-> to someone he had just pulled over.  And he did.  The
-> only thing was someone had heard him and contacted the
-> guy or his lawyer.  When the judge heard the radio
-> tapes with this statement on it the case was tossed
-> out.  (FYI, the officer lasted about two more weeks on
-> the job.)
Not that the officer did anything correct, but what happened to the
individual that violated Federal, and possibly State law, by tape 
recording the radio transmissions and releasing them to a third party?
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