Hacker News Reader

> if you don’t get any kind of citation there is no action against you to complain about.

Surely you are trolling? Plenty of evidence of plenty of police doing things that warrant civilian complaints that were never intended to be documented in the form of a citation by a police officer.

View on HN

I am not trolling. I do believe people who complain about specific police actions and yet are not willing to hire an attorney are trolling in the offline real world.

Hiring an attorney comes down to a lot more than simple will. The phone camera is one of the most powerful tools the average person has to combat abuses of authority. Not everyone who is a victim of that has the means or resources (or sometimes the sympathy) to just go hire an attorney.

That is teenage social media nonsense, some combination of laziness and a desire for attention. If you aren’t willing to hire an attorney you aren’t taking the problem seriously.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com