Cop Says He Secretly Recorded to Protect Himself
(AP/ABC):
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/cop-secretly-recorded-protect-27963464
The Akron officer, Donald Schismenos, resigned in 2013, more than two
years after thousands of hours of his video and audio were found on a
police computer. He used a pen camera and a dashboard camera, and the
recordings included his interactions with the public and his
supervisors. Schismenos told investigators he made the recordings to
protect himself, worrying he might face internal investigations or
retaliation from superiors for filing complaints about them, the Akron
Beacon Journal ( http://bit.ly/1vPn6a3 ) reported Friday. The
newspaper requested and obtained a variety of records related to the
case, including recorded interviews of Schismenos by officers
conducting an internal investigation. "I was pretty concerned about
being red-flagged, being concerned about, I don't even know if you
want to call it paranoia, but about high law, superior officers going
to investigate me," Schismenos said. "So at times, I did record." The
files were discovered because they took up more than one-quarter of
the available storage on a police server, slowing the system.
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