Dan Scott, AKA "the Voice of Reason", wrote:
and I am quoting its entirety to emphasize my total agreement.
Don't do it yourself, Glenn!
> I admire your enthusiasm for doing the right thing. However, I'd like to
> seriously suggest you contact the police before you go any further with
> your plan. Please consider these points:
>
> 1. a photo of someone handing money over to someone else is simply a photo
> of someone "repaying a loan" (not prosecutable);
> 2. even if the photo contains a baggie changing hands, baggies are not
> against the law and baggies full of white stuff are baggies of laundry
> soap,divinity, or coconut flakes until proven otherwise;
> 3. you regularly lean out your apartment window taking photos (remember, a
> sizeable portion of your photogear "wandered off" not too long ago);
> 4. quite frequently, the people who burglarize apartments and homes in a
> neighborhood are also active buyers and sellers of narcotics in that
> neighborhood;
> 5. if you are seen by your subjects, they won't have any doubts about why
> you were photographing them;
> 6. you don't have eyes in the back of your head.
>
> By contacting the police first, you are still doing the right thing. By
> letting the police decide if and how they want to follow up on your
> information, you let them obtain the evidence in a way that is most likely
> to be useable to them. Please reconsider.
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