The police chief in Wilmington, North Carolina, has publicly lambasted one of his officers. The officer recently pulled over a local attorney moonlighting as an Uber driver and told the driver that he could not film the traffic stop.
"Taking photographs and videos of people that are in plain sight, including the police, is your legal right," Chief Ralph Evangelous said in a Wednesday statement published on the department's Facebook page. "As a matter of fact, we invite citizens to do so when they believe it is necessary. We believe that public videos help to protect the police as well as our citizens and provide critical information during police and citizen interaction."
The statement concluded: "A copy of this statement will be disseminated to every officer within the Wilmington Police Department."
During the February 26 traffic stop, Jesse Bright began filming Sgt. Kenneth Becker when he and other law enforcement officers approached his car. Sgt. Becker, who appeared to be wearing a VieVu body-worn camera, told Bright that a "new law" forbids citizens from filming encounters with police.
"Turn it off or I'll take you to jail," Becker said.
"For recording you?" Bright retorted. "What is the law?"
The officers were unable to cite him the "new law," as it does not exist.
Source: ArsTechnica
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday March 14 2017, @07:42PM (2 children)
If you mention /Mr and Mrs Smith/, you are referring to the movie and resumably, /Lark Rise to Candleford/ is a TV series.
People who like HTML in their posts can, I am led to believe, do the real thing.
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(Score: 2) by gidds on Wednesday March 15 2017, @12:34PM (1 child)
I use ASCII conventions for /italics/, *bold*, and _underline_ myself.
But it seems a bit redundant to use two separate conventions (italics and capitalisation) to indicate titles! If you're using capitalisation anyway, why not use it fully and remove the need for anything else?
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday March 15 2017, @05:08PM
/The Title/ *refers to* the work, using its title. And as the title is title-cased, it too is title-cased when being referred to.
Note also that refering to the title - "The Title" - would not be italicised, as it's not a reference to the work, but a reference to the sequence of words that is the title of the work.
You may need to re-read /Godel Escher Bach/ if the above appears confusing, there's a whole chapter devoted to the difference between things and how you refer to things (including referring to names (that in turn refer to things)) in there, IIRC.
For reference, my company does proofreading for governments, academics (authors and journals), standards bodies, ... . We've seen a hundred different conventions, but in general they overlap an awful lot. (References being the exception, no 2 bodies agree with each other.)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves