Originally published at: menino.com - Miguel's website
… Cops staked out a bar in the hope of finding a journalist drunk. The journalist in question, Edmonton newspaper columnist Kerry Diotte, wasn’t suspected of involvement in any crime. But Diotte had written a column criticizing the police force’s radar and camera technology as being more of a cash cow for the force than an effective measure against road fatalities, and the story enraged the local constabulary.
from: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/22/traffic_cops_bar_stakeout/
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The police broke the law when they used a restricted database to obtain information on the journalist (who, much to the dismay of the police, had a clean record). The police were also unsuccessful in their attempt to bust the journalist.
from: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/21/creepy_cops_violate_.html
Original on the politech mailing list “photo radar corruption scandal”:
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200509/msg00344.html