On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:23:55AM -0600, William Robb scripsit: > Why is photographing a building downtown subject to police harassment but > parking a car beside that same building not?
Because pictures of police misconduct frequently have direct career consequences, *and* it's a deeply-absorbed movie-plot threat, while cars are normative symbols of security and prosperity, on the other. Stuff you hear repeated enough affects your thinking _even when you know it's wrong_. (Neurologists are having a fun time with this stuff of late. Makes it really hard to think of yourself as rational.) I wouldn't assume anybody in uniform knows the movie plot stuff is wrong; some do, many don't. The bit about pictures having political and career consequences *isn't* wrong, and SLRs are associated with photojournalists, whom the police generally do not like. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
