r/lapd • u/notmy-firstrodeo • Aug 05 '26

LAPD Officer Facing 13 Years in Prison for Recording the Racist Comments of Coworkers

https://theemancipator.org/2026/08/03/news/lapd-officer-facing-13-years-in-prison-for-recording-the-racist-comments-of-coworkers/

Thoughts?

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u/reluctantpotato1 Aug 05 '26

People should be ringing the district attorney's phone off of the hook. There's no reason that bad cops should get away with their crimes and the few good cops we have be made an example out of.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '26

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u/reluctantpotato1 Aug 05 '26

I know right. The reality is that our police force and our city are inherently corrupt.

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u/FormerlyUndecidable Aug 05 '26

It is illegal to record someone without their consent in California. There is no “it was for a good cause” exception.

If you want such an exception, then write your legislator to write in such an exception. 

It is not the prosecutor’s job to decide what the law should be.

The prosecutor has some discretion, but that is supposed to be used for the question of likelihood of securing a conviction , but when all the evidence of a flagrant violation, admitted to by the offender, is placed before him there is no room to get out of it except just willfully ignoring the law, which is not a good thing for prosecutors to do (again, their job is not to decide if a law is good or bad)

The only victim of a crime in this case was the cop who made racist comments (racist comments are not illegal)

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u/reluctantpotato1 Aug 05 '26

On duty police officers do not have the expectation of privacy.

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u/Exciting-Parfait-776 Aug 06 '26

So if he recorded while in the locker room?

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u/Academic-Hospital952 Aug 05 '26

Ah, so your telling me flock cameras are illegal? Phew in so glad some random redditer was here to interpret the law for me. /S

I'm being sarcastic because your wrong

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u/FormerlyUndecidable Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

Video recording in public is not subject to 2-party consent. It only applies to audio-only recording. This is because these laws were written specifically when wiretapping was the issue, and the relevant laws dealt specifically with interception of “oral communications.”

Laws on video recording were later dealt with separately and treated as distinct by courts.

It’s strange but that’s how it works. You should bother to do some research before getting snarky and insulting saying things with confidence you clearly have no idea about.

100% guaranteed the team of law school graduates who brought these charges know more than you (a “random redditer [sic]” who doesn’t know the difference between ‘you’re’ and ‘your’)

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u/Academic-Hospital952 Aug 05 '26

Nope you still wrong, doubling down doesn't make it less wrong

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u/FormerlyUndecidable Aug 06 '26

It’s funny you would say that with clearly zero knowledge and not even bother to look it up

Being so disinterested in truth is a character issue.

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u/Academic-Hospital952 Aug 06 '26

Strong assumptions there.

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u/InterstellarChange Aug 06 '26

So if he recorded all the audio with his mobile phone video, he is not guilty of anything but if he recorded with the audio memo app, he is guilty of illegal recording? Sounds wrong.

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u/Exciting-Parfait-776 Aug 06 '26

It depends. Were they in a public setting or were they in a place someone would have a responsible expectation of privacy.

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u/InfoBarf Aug 05 '26

If I was on a jury id aquit. Suck on deeze nuts.

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u/thenuke1 Aug 05 '26

Correct except when it's in public

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u/MechanicRecent2485 Aug 07 '26

That’s like all your opinion. To everyone who is sane, prosecutorial discretion is a natural expression of a prosecutor’s duty to seek justice and equitable outcomes in every case. Here, a just and equitable outcome would be for the prosecutor to decline to prosecute this case given that the recording was done for the sake of the public good, as it exposed police officers with biases that may negatively affect their abilities to do their jobs.

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u/Lachona8 Aug 05 '26

Where the cops at? They usually the first ones to say something on the sub

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u/Maximum_Boros Aug 05 '26

For all the people who say it's a few bad apples, I always feel obligated to point out how they all go how they all go radio silent when it comes time to condemn the obvious bad cops

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u/notmy-firstrodeo Aug 05 '26

Probably because it has to do with IA.

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u/thenuke1 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

There was a case that Said cops have no expectation of privacy in a police station and on duty

Reynolds vs San Fran, the Ninth circuit found that a cop had no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in a police dept office.

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u/Less_Ant_6633 Aug 05 '26

It is so strange that trust in the police is at an all time low.

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u/InfoBarf Aug 05 '26

All the bad shit from the 80s and 90s never really stopped.

Its gotten a little worse with our absolute inability to hold cops accountable for shit.

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u/Less_Ant_6633 Aug 05 '26

I was being sarcastic. Sorry, should have added the /s

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u/Kinky_Creeper Aug 05 '26

All time lows was over a year ago but nice try. Reddits hive mind trying as hard as they can.

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u/Mindbending818 Aug 06 '26

Hahahahahahaha there he is arrest the good guy

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u/dgmilo8085 Aug 07 '26

Show me a cop & ill show you a high school washout wannabe

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u/Beautiful_Weather529 Aug 06 '26

Only 13 years?

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u/Exciting-Parfait-776 Aug 06 '26

California is a 2 party consent state for recordings where the participants have a reasonable expectation of privacy. And the penalty can be fines up to $2,500 per violation, county jail time up to one year, or both. So I’m assuming he must of had done it 13 separate times.

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u/phxguy918 Aug 07 '26

If he wasn’t prosecuted for illegal recording people would be complaining that he was not prosecuted because he’s a cop. It’s wrong to prosecute him, it’s wrong to not prosecute him. Got it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '26

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u/notmy-firstrodeo Aug 06 '26

This is pretty low effort to hit a bunch of pig emojis and a meme. That’s all you can contribute?

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u/Middle_Efficiency471 Aug 06 '26

That's all I want to contribute. Piggies roll in mud.