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Subject: Question for Rick

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Greg

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Date Posted: 11:10:16 09/04/02 Wed
In reply to: Rick 's message, "I'd be suspicious of this guy too" on 10:04:58 09/04/02 Wed

Now when you said that his actions hurt "the hobby", which hobby are you referring to?
If you're talking about photography, in the grand scheme of things I don't think it will hurt a thing. By nature police officers tend to shy away from cameras and always have. I believe the feeling on that is just paranoia on the part of the cop. After 15 yrs in the business, my feeling is that if someone wants to take my picture while I'm working, so what? In a city of 3 million people, someone always seems to have a camera somewhere. I'm not afraid to have a photo taken of me or my squad car while I'm doing my job. If I'm doing my job properly, I have nothing to worry about.
Our parking lots are open and accessible to the general public to park in while they are at the local police station conducting business, so our vehicles are always on the public way.
Is police car photography a big hobby? Not at all. Will the actions of some nit-wit in Pennsylvania who can't listen to verbal direction blacken the eye of a photo collector in Oklahoma who wants to take a picture of Tulsa PD's new Impalas? I highly doubt it.
And if you were implying that the incident in PA will have a negative effect on the hobby of collecting/building/restoring vintage police cars, I disagree there too. If the towelhead, pull-start, camel jockey types want to create their own police car, they're not going to do it by finding some tiny little Mayberry town in PA and photograph their local squads. They can go to any rent-a-car agency and pick up a new white CrownVic for $30 a day and slap a $100 set of generic looking POLICE decals from the Gall's catalog or website on the car in an hour.

The people giving this hobby a bad reputation and a black eye are not the idiots roaming around in secure areas taking pictures, it's the 18-30 yr old M/W guys driving around in a late-model Ford with deck and dash lights, corner strobes, radar, video systems, scanners and antennas who call themselves car restorers and hobbyists.

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Answer for Greg	Rick	13:45:33 09/04/02 Wed
His actions may lead to distrust. I'll give you no argument there. -- Greg, 14:27:29 09/04/02 Wed I say we all hop on an airplane and go to Willistown with our cameras and see how many of us get arrested. Or, maybe I'll just send The Committee there. (NT) -- DA, 14:54:42 09/04/02 Wed agreed -- Rick, 15:00:27 09/04/02 Wed I'd like to pull up out front of the station in a tour bus full of Japanese with cameras (NT) -- G. Hound, 17:10:21 09/04/02 Wed Copcar of the month -- Committee Member, 20:57:43 09/04/02 Wed

Good Reply Greg, Especially the Last Paragraph (NT)	The Other Rick	20:28:38 09/04/02 Wed