The best way to deal with cops who break the law is to fire them then prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.
And it only took six posts to remind everyone what a sycophantic idiot he is. Sadly, that’s not his best. When the Cop Bat Signal goes off, I’ve seen him coming in here to defend their besmirched honor as early as post two. It’s quite impressive.
I agree.
According to one of the followup stories, the swapped photos were indeed traced to other cops, but they’re off the hook while Harrington takes the fall for everybody.
Good news – Apple and Google are rolling out new and improved doorlocks. As noted above, some of the cops are getting publicly butthurt over the prospect of having to find their pr0n on the Net like the rest of the Teeming Millions. 
This wouldn’t help with cases like this one, though. The woman’s phone was locked, but she gave the officer her password so he could retrieve a contact number for her.
Yes, you’ve made your pro-crime stance quite clear in these threads, no need to keep restating it.
My irony meter has just exploded. Does anyone have a spare I can borrow?
Goddamn, you’re an idiot. You do realize that stealing someone’s personal data is a crime, right? Which is exactly what these doorlocks are supposed to prevent? Making it more difficult for criminals (even if those criminals happen to be cops) to access your records is a positive thing to everyone but the most fascistic.
You will note that the chief selling point in the article above, according to Apple itself, is that the government won’t be able to force them to give up your data.
I.e. the people who potentially have a lawful right to insist on having access to it.
The only people who these “improved doorlocks” benefit are criminals who don’t want to get caught.
And people who have sensitive data on their phones will be able to prevent police from arbitrarily downloading the contents of a phone during routine traffic stops.
Not if you give the cops your password, it won’t.
Which is what happened in this story.
As stories like this become better known, fewer people will make that mistake.
Smapti’s “brain” approaches short-circuit.
“The best way to avoid having your sensitive data stolen is to not give cops your password. No wait, the best way to avoid altercations with police is to abide by every one of their requests without question. No wait…argghh!”
Unfortunately, people in this situation don’t have a lot of choices. You get to make a call, but the phone number you need is on your phone and the cop isn’t going to let you use your phone. So you can sit in jail, or give the cop your password.
No, the best thing to do is not have data on your phone that you wouldn’t want the police to see.
And I thought punishment meant being charged with a crime and going through the courts system. Oh wait, it’s the cops that are the criminals.
There’s the problem right there. When the cops have the power to prevent you from calling for help, with your own goddamn phone, then things are fucked.
If somebody, anybody really, takes away your phone, and refuses to let you use your phone, like to call a lawyer, then it’s a police state. The state has become the criminal element.
That they then look at your private information, with no warrant, no probable cause, it’s a police state. The theft and abuse is just a side job, the real crime is violating your privacy. Once that right is abused, the rest is all just police clown car fun and games.
So full circle back to it being the victim’s fault.
Bless your heart, you’re just a special kind of stupid, aren’t you.
Responding to trolls allows them to change the focus of the outrage.
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Disturbing-texts-in-CHP-officers-nude-photo-5846327.php
“an 18-year-old woman who died in 2006 while crashing her father’s Porsche were leaked by CHP dispatchers and ended up online”
Hey, if you don’t want your dead daughter’s pictures all over the place, you shouldn’t let her drive.