Re: [sudo-discuss] This came up on Hackaday

On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, cere.yahoo(a)gmail.com wrote: thats a really good idea. I hope they make it carefully though, because cops are sadistic assholes who would obsess over revenge if someone "snitched" on them. they should remind submitters that without evidence of some kind, reporting other police through a website might not be worth the risk of getting caught "snitching". Also, in court (or anywhere where a cop might actually get in trouble) evidence, even videotaped evidence, can almost never be used without a human testifying, even if all they say is "I set up that camera and this footage came from it" so basically, the site needs to tell the submitter to prepare for coming out of the closet in case there is an investigation. basically this site needs to be like kickstarter, in the sense that no commitment is made by the (anonymous) testifier unless the threshold for (and promise of) prosecution is reached. and it needs to provide securedrop-like anonymity protections for submitters with cragslist-like communications so that prosecutors can ask questions of witnesses before they go public. not an easy task, but definitely worthwhile. seperately, the site should facilitate a bulletin board for the public (and police) to post reports of incidents, anonymously and/or with contact information in case something is actually done about it. I wonder why craigslist doesn't have a police interactions category. -jake