What’s Good for the Gestapo Is Obviously Not What’s Good for the Gander

It seems like our Menaces in Blue like the privilege of secret surveillance of the sheeple, but don’t enjoy turnabout fair play. POLICE FIGHT CELLPHONE RECORDINGS Simon Glik, a lawyer, was walking down Tremont Street in Boston when he saw three police officers struggling to extract a plastic bag from a teenager’s mouth. Thinking their force seemed excessive for a drug arrest, Glik pulled out his cellphone and began recording. Within minutes, Glik said, he was in handcuffs. “One of the officers asked me whether my phone had audio recording capabilities,’’ Glik, 33, said recently of the incident, which took … Continue reading What’s Good for the Gestapo Is Obviously Not What’s Good for the Gander