Last night Fox 8 news covered a story about a Sandusky officer who was being investigated for being “unavailable while on duty”. The video then cut to a clip from the dashboard camera of a police car. Illuminated by the headlights was not a traffic stop but a cop peeing off a boat dock.
What was the greater good? The story was to cover why the sergeant was not responding to calls while he was on duty. I don’t think that him peeing was the reason for his absence. Why does the public need to see him doing these indecencies? Half the reason why urinating in public is a crime is because people don’t want to see it, so why would we show it o TV?
The story also stated that “among other things” they discovered this infraction. What were the other things? Wouldn’t these videos be just as valid to show? Why did they choose this clip?
In defense of the news station, I will say that the video was ‘censored’ in a sense that you could not see any private parts or urine. But I think it is just poor taste to put this on the news. I don’t think it taught anything to the public and it humiliates the officer and his city.
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