This guy is a great American, doing what citizens are supposed to do...keep the government in check. You've got to watch his videos they're really funny.
He calls himself "Jimmy Justice," a self-styled "cop-arazzi," armed only with a video camera as he prowls the streets of New York looking for law enforcement officers who are breaking the law. His targets are illegally parked city government vehicles -- particularly cars of traffic cops blocking bus stops, sitting in "no parking" zones or double-parked.
Cop cars blocking fire hydrants make him particularly incensed.
"Something like that is just despicable," Jimmy fumed, pointing to a police enforcement vehicle parked next to a fire hydrant on 33rd Street on Manhattan's West Side on a muggy July afternoon. "They're never allowed to block a fire hydrant -- but they do it."
He posts his best videos on YouTube and sends regular e-mail to the union representing the city's traffic enforcement agents, pointing out the most egregious parking offenses. And he has gotten results, he said, with some parking enforcers being fined because of his videos.
"I'm using a video camera as a weapon," he said. "I believe a video does not lie." As originally reported by the Washington Post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mVFXZ5wjzc
Jimmy Justice should start following some of our politicians around to see what kind of laws they're breaking!
Sunday, August 3, 2008
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I think Jimmy Justice is good to document law breaking but I don't like specifically targeting police officers. No one is above the law, and I don't like seeing police cars change lanes without signaling (for example). But I also don't like the idea of cop-haters selectively editing videos of apparent police brutality or following them around to wait for them to make a mistake, yet ignore any heinous deeds their friends and neighbors are perpetrating.
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