First Amendment Auditors YouTube

You're assuming from the off that everyone is familiar with these people and what they do.

A pain in the hole ... Inbred type of idiot..

I prefer schrodingers cat

First time hearing about it.

Sounds annoying. sounds like that busybody on a bike that used to make videos while in dublin traffic and upload them on youtube . you crossed an unbroken white line wah wah wah. zero niner Delta Lima, silver grey Avensis. speed 22 knots.north north west. elevation zero.

I've never gone looking for videos of the type but have seen some over recent years and close to 100% feel that they are attention seekers looking to insert themselves in to situations that have nothing to do with them or to antagonize police officers so that they can 'own' them. Saw one of a guy walking up to a traffic stop and immediately swearing at the police officer to not tell him to leave or to stop recording. In that instance given how he was creating an obvious and seemingly intentional distraction for the officer, I think the officer should have arrested him for interfering with the police doing their job and let him b*tch about it a couple of hours later even if not charged with anything.

These people should seriously consider putting their efforts in to something that benefits society or themselves or whoever rather than this type of 'gotcha' activism.

I'm struggling to think of any newsworthy event that came about as a consequence of one of these 'auditors' who went looking for a reaction. Any of the significant events that have appeared in the media have come about as a consequence of a bystander who just happened to be there recording what was going on, or the release of police bodycam video footage through the choice of the Dept of after a FOI type request. Not some supposed guardian of the galaxy type character looking to feel important.

I've been very vocal on Boards about the support for BLM protests calling for fair treatment for all at the hands of the police, I have no time for anyone looking to create a story where there isn't one.

Their behaviour actually mirrors GO'D an her ilk here i.e. They're a bunch of sick eejits looking to get an unitentional reaction from people who are meant to look after their own safety. The best thing to do is to ignore these cúnts & get on with your day.

They do the odd warden and I've seen one do a library before

I've seen them filming Post Offices, City Hall, Court Houses, shopping malls.

Any I have seen on YouTube are cretins. Auditing Britain's stupidity and attitude always makes me laugh.

They seem to have a fair number of subscribers and I'm surprised how many positive comments there are on their channels ignoring the obvious faults in the auditor's own behaviour and the disgusting comments about policeperson's appearance etc.

I can only conclude there are a lot of people out there who have an unreasonable hatred of the police.

Examples of Auditing Britain's crass behaviour included videoing people working on their computers in an office through their own window in the guise of exposing the office workers' supposed failure to preserve the confidentiality of client information on those computers because the computers were facing outward to the street. From about 10 feet away! And through a pane of glass! In other words, no risk to client confidentiality.

Yet, when eventually confronted about it by the manager, he remonstrated with him and then a security guard (iirc) and then the cops.

Utter fool. The irony is he hates being filmed himself. Now that the cops in the UK know about him and his name, one video shows a young female cop addressing him by his name where he proceeds to threaten her with (his usual) GDRP for mentioning his name on camera. When he is the one in control of filming. It's laughable the way he goes on.

Another video posted by a UK comedian shows what is allegedly him following and harassing the comedian through the streets of London.

I remain amazed at the support these clowns get.

But they get the subscribers and that's what matters to them.

I'm quite a fan of the auditors. The well behaving, respectful, and not crossing the line trolling.

The ones i've enjoyed the most are when they are simply walking along a curbside, road, or standing still... and get pulled over for ID. They refuse to give ID and are detained because of that, even thought they are not required to produce ID.

I think people like this shine a spotlight on the mentality and frequently accept abuse of power by the cops. Some really show the tyrannical nature of some police officers. The complete power trip, the abusive demeanors, and the down right lies they tell.

Most police officers are fine though, and just want to get through their day without any nonsense.

Given the police brutality that USA seems to have, i think civilian led accountability towards the police force makes alot of sense. These little actions i think help build that.

Some auditors are trolling too hard though. Nothing wrong with testing your civil rights, but some cross a line and become dangerous.

I think the part about if a police officer suspects you of committing a crime, that's perfectly fine. The 'bad' officers in the published videos don't tend to know which crime they are suspecting.. it very often is a search for some information, or some conversation game to try to the civilian to trip up SO that they can then have more justification for further intrusion into the persons time/freedom.

I think if the laws in the state they live say that they only have to show ID (which also means historic records once its run through the systems) when a crime is suspected, then that is the only time a citizen should need to show it. Not because some cop doesn't like the person, or feels insecure about their authority in the eyes of the citizen. Someone once told me a sentence that I think captures what appears in many of these videos 'If you don't respect my authority, then I won't respect you as a person'.

I think since the videos are purely recording the actual events, then the cops who follow the law, and behave well have nothing to hide. They're not entitled to privacy like a civilian is. The bad cops (which are a small number) are often disciplined or have it placed on their records. I think overall this is a good direction to help reform the police force in the states, which will take a century or more.

The last paragraph you wrote mentioned 'misuse', and 'why someone is in particular area', are both exactly why it needs to be done. Civilians have a right to privacy and to be assumed to be not doing anything wrong, unless there is suspicion of a crime. I tend to think of it as Civilians own society, and the police force is a utility to protect it. So the civilians rights rank above the police power if there is a conflict. Of course, I'm pretty reasonable and I know this is a huge grey area with incredibly complexity of which i cannot begin to guess correct solutions to.

The first amendment of the Constitution was the 1939 act that extended the definition of "time of war" in Article 28.3.3° to include armed conflict that the State itself was not a participant in (amended addition in bold):

An interesting chapter in Irish history, given that it was signed into law the day after Germany invaded Poland, and allowed the Irish Government to exercise emergency powers during World War II. But it's hardly something that I'd waste my time watching people "audit" on YouTube.

I watch a few of these on YouTube, Amagansett Press, very respectful and gives respect if he gets respect, fair enough,

a few of them are downright dicks, swear etc and are looking for a re-action, you have to give Kudos to some of them,

the reaction and training of some of the police would really question how reliable they are to carry out their duties,

I've often wondered why as there are so many of these in circulation they dont mandate more training on it so the police

are doing their job correctly ?? Teach them what the Auditor can and cant do, when they get a call, respect the auditors rights

and inform the caller regards the law as it stands. Some of these videos show multiple squad cars and officers turning up for 1 guy

and a camera what a waste of resources

Have no time for the reactionist seekers though

I like them and it shows the way police in the USA are badly trained and uneducated. American cops are decidedly aggressive and arrogant. I asked a cop in downtown Boston for directions to a Salvation Army store once and he decided I was homeless and threatened to arrest me as a vagrant. He put his hand on his gun and started moving towards but the other cop with him held him back and explained I was looking for the shop not the services. Just wanted some vintage shirts and nearly got arrested and/or beaten.

One thing these video show is the amount of cops doing nothing when 3 or 4 cars turn up over nothing

Yeah saw that one and all the aggression was from the cops. If there were cameras about when I was a teenager there would have been several Gardai charged for assaulting teenagers. There was one who was notorious for it in Coolock until he messed with the wrong kid not knowing who is brother was. Rumour is he left the country and even then had to move a few times.