Reason Writers on TV: Radley Balko Talks About Recording Cops Tonight on John Stossel's Show

Reason Staff | 4.21.2011 3:18 PM

Reason Senior Editor Radley Balko will discuss recording on-duty police officers tonight on Stossel.

The shows airs on Fox Business Network at 10 pm ET.

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Davebo 15 years ago

Jeez! How many times do you have to be lied to by Stossel before you decide that it might be a bad idea to associate with him?
1. Gregory Smith 15 years ago
  
  Stossel never lies, what are you talking about?
  
  Stossel is a friend of freedom and the most famous libertarian in America. Have you read his books? I have.
  
  http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com
2. Qui Custodiet Ipses Custodiens 15 years ago
  
  Linky?
Meta_Man 15 years ago

Truth is that the reason cops don't like to be recorded is that police work is often much more brutal by necessity than what the protected public wants to acknowledge. The police are caught in a Catch-22: the middle class demands that cops protect us from poor people but also demand that they do it in such a manner that we don't feel guilty about the nature of enforcing laws.
1. Libertymike 15 years ago
  
  Ah, Caesar's poor little parasites perplexed.
Pat D King 15 years ago

I hope Stossel asks Balko what it's like to work with the great writer Alec Baldwin!
WungNoo 15 years ago

Sounds to me like the dude is really onto something.

http://www.complete-privacy.au.tc
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

NPR can't see a camera two feet to its right, and I'm supposed to trust them to suss out news?
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

NPR can't see a camera two feet to its right, and I'm supposed to trust them to suss out news?
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Double post, my bad.
Jim 15 years ago

I think he emotes a little too much (for my preference).
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Stossel was in Born on the Fourth of July?
Jim 15 years ago

How come liberals don't have a super-douchey-looking-guy doing this? Seems like a slam-dunk, if this con can do it.
1. Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
  
  I think we both know they have plenty of them.
  1. Jim 15 years ago
    
    I want to see undercover video of the Heritage Foundation accepting money from some "bring out troops home" organization.
Jim 15 years ago

Without ACORN false registrations, Obama would have only gotten 18% of the popular vote.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

O'Keefe doesn't have the courage to go into NPR's bedroom.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

American Federation of Pimps Local 69 is suing O'Keefe for dues.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Boom! Politician joke.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

REASON!
1. General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago
  
  Drink!
  1. Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
    
    Well, look who it is.
Jim 15 years ago

This is a dumb commercial. No one outside of a commercial kitchen has that many goddamn spices, so that they fall out of a cabinet when you open it. I hope your commercial is better.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Swivel Store doesn't look cheaply made at all.
1. Jim 15 years ago
  
  Ack, you did get the same commercial.
  1. Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
    
    You can't prove that!
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

Stossel's grandson looks like a praying mantis.
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

"And I thought, 'For a magazine called Reason...'"
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

"Google now offers street views."

By now John means four years ago.
Jim 15 years ago

Jokes on them; I don't have a medicine cabinet, wallet, or files.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

WRONG! Pornography powers the internet.
Jim 15 years ago

So before tracking cookies for targeted advertising, there weren't any free websites?
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

I KNOW YOU HAVE YOUR WANG IN YOUR HAND.
Jim 15 years ago

Address the thing about employers. You can't look for a job without using the internet (practically), so if you get fired for doing so, you're fucked.
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

One of these guys is actually James O'keefe. You will be pwned Mr Stossel.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Michael Fertik is an anagram for Mackerel If Hit. Think about it.
1. Jim 15 years ago
  
  Perfidy!
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

You can take your wang into your own hands!
1. Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
  
  You can have my wang when you pry it from my cold, cramped hand.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Is there anything about John Kerry that doesn't put me to sleep? I think nozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzz zzz
Jim 15 years ago

Who's going to set up and monitor this "do not track" registry? Could it be...SATAN!
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

"There's so many reasons America is ahead of Europe..."

FUCK YEAH! I'm on team Fertik now.
Jim 15 years ago

Reason Magazine? How gay do they think I am?
1. Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
  
  Very.
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

Arec Bawdrin!
Jim 15 years ago

Spartacus: Live the Experience takes you to New Zealand? Do they know who Spartacus was?
Jim 15 years ago

Which is why I refuse to register my guns or my stable of whores.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Who the hell is going to armed homes to steal guns? CORPSES, THAT'S WHO.
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

Dud got the wrong head on head handing out day.
1. Jim 15 years ago
  
  Strangely, I thought much the same thing. He looks like a barely-formed dough person.
  1. General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago
    
    His beard is neatly trimmed though.
    1. Jim 15 years ago
      
      Oh haha I was talking about the representative. They're both ugly though.
      1. Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
        
        I thought you were both talking about the Stoss.
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

Just say it man, Second admentment motherfucker!
1. General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago
  
  And the 2nd AMENDMENT as well, too!
  1. Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
    
    Don't liveblog drunk.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Vermont, Alaska, Arizona and Wisconsin want everyone dead from a bullet!
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Stephens is seconds away from pulling his gat.
Jim 15 years ago

"I want to know if my neighbor is a child rapist with a gun."

"Also, I will be able to tell from his name if he's black, arab, etc. I have a right to know."
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

To protect our privacy we must make people's information public?
1. Jim 15 years ago
  
  We have to bomb the village in order to save it.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Come on, Congressman, skin that smoke wagon and see what happens. Jerk that pistol and go to work.
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

If secrecy is bad, then you won't mind telling me where you got your head from.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

SNOWBALL/GUN FIGHT! Someone get Tulpa on the line.
Jim 15 years ago

HAHAHAHA, an ED commercial showing a team of horses hauling a truck, driven by a guy in a cowboy hat. "MANLINESS!!!"
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

there is nothing worse than an impotent cowboy, sad
Jim 15 years ago

Oh god, the robot floor cleaner commercial again. I repeat my objection: what happens when Skynet becomes self-aware? Does the vacuum try to kill me, or merely not vacuum my floor?
1. General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago
  
  That newfangled one is to the roomba as the t1000 is to the original terminator.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

MintCleaner vs. Roomba, on the next Robot Wars.
1. General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago
  
  One day the robots are going to look at eachother then look at the crowd and realize who they are really meant to fight. NERDS!
  1. Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
    
    And then their batteries died.
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

Rage time.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Cops can't even destroy evidence rigt.
1. Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
  
  Fist of Etiquette can't even type right.
Jim 15 years ago

BBAAAAAALLLLLLLLKKKKKKOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Balko!
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

Balko, pissing off people since 1994.
Jim 15 years ago

I really, desperately want Balko to point to something behind Stossel, then punch him in the nuts when he looks away.
1. General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago
  
  *That* is for the Hit and Run readers.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Wiretapping laws. That's why my cam doesn't connect to a wire or a tap.
Jim 15 years ago

"Police officers have unusual powers..."

Unusual? Are they mutants?
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Does Balko have a black eye?
Jim 15 years ago

Didn't I see a movie about Balko, where he had unusual powers? It was called "Powder", I believe.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

A GUY WITH A GUN! I think it was Rep. Stephens from the previous segment.
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

Fuck man, if you could quick draw and drop that dude...
Jim 15 years ago

NOT PLATO!!! PLATO DID NOT SPEAK LATIN!!! IT WAS JUVENAL, YOU SON OF A FUCKING BITCH!!!
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

"Who watches the watchmen?"

I dunno. Coast Guard?
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

If that's an iphone they totally got you tracked, balko.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

You better have express, written consent from FoxBiz, Radley.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Was that a video of a Geraldo studio audience?
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

FOP! FOP! Fuck that, I'm a Dapper Dan Man!
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

O B E Y

Don't film while doing it.
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

TULPA!!!!!
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Cop lost his job. Not charged with assault.
Jim 15 years ago

"Cops lie! More news at 11!"
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

Snowballs KILLHATE'EM
Jim 15 years ago

Ah, so this one didn't even get fired...he got a 20 day vacation.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Trust by verify.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Holy fucking shit, a commercial for Exxon. I knew Stossel was in the pocket of Big Oil.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

And now he's in the pocket of Big Pet Breath Spray.
1. General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago
  
  Dog teeth.
Jim 15 years ago

LOLOLOL, this commercial for dog breath spray just said, and I am fucking QUOTING: "a professional veterinary dental cleaning can cost hundreds of dollars, and even endanger your pets life".

I say, citation needed, on how many dogs have been killed by the vet brushing their teeth.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Tony Christ is a straight shooter.
Jim 15 years ago

Argh, his head is even worse. He looks like a funeral director.

Hahaha, he said he's not a "tv person". No shit...you look like death warmed over.
1. General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago
  
  He looks like a guy that plays a funeral director on teevee.
  1. Jim 15 years ago
    
    Granted; I don't know much about what actual funderal directors look like.
    1. General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago
      
      The only one I have ever met was the guy that did our families funerals; he was a nice italian guy.
Jim 15 years ago

We need to outlaw these drugs for teh chilldruns!!! Kids are engaging in destructive behaviors!
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

I'm sorry for the parents, but the kid was not a kid. He was an adult if he was over 18.
1. Jim 15 years ago
  
  Yeah I typed that stuff making fun of him before I heard what happened to the kid. I stand by my statements though.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

WTF is this interview about?
1. General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago
  
  Somehow heroin is involved but I don't think that they have any left.
Jim 15 years ago

He's not making sense. He says he wants to go back to adults being adults...but wants them to be treated like kids by having the parents called whenever little Timmy gets a boo-boo.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

"John Stossel just got the word. He's Freddie Mercury."
1. Jim 15 years ago
  
  lol
2. General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago
  
  My girlfriend just said that a minute ago...she wins
  1. Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
    
    BUT SHE DIDN'T TYPE IT OUT ON THE INTERNET, DID SHE?
    1. General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago
      
      She made a power glove out of various electronic components and a net book, though.
      1. Jim 15 years ago
        
        A power glove for the NES, or for whatever weird Japanese shit you get up to in the bedroom? Because I can think of a lot of sexual things I don't want my wife to own, and anything called a "power glove" would be high on that list.
        
        Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
        
        Keep your cameras and power gloves out of my boudoir!
Jim 15 years ago

Lonestar Patent Services. "Do you, too, want to become a rent-seeker? Patent a bunch of shit and then sue, sue, sue!"
Jim 15 years ago

Waxing is barbaric? Tell me I'm not the only one getting a hair-removal commercial.
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

Penetrated? and Violated?

What's the score here, what's next?
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

"Penetrated."

Saucy.
Jim 15 years ago

He has enemies? Actual enemies, or shady internet journalist enemies? Because all enemies are not created equal.
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

I have a camera hidden in my privacy issue of Reason.

Drink!
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

John Stossel, the Carl Monday of our day.
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

Are pretend christians against pretend abortions?
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

Are pretend Christians against pretend abortion?
Jim 15 years ago

OMG, they managed to drag Spiro Agnew into this? Hidden cameras would have prevented Vietnam.
General Butt-hyphen-Naked 15 years ago

Veep with the biggest hash habit.

Little known fact.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

I'm not glad James O'Keefe wears white britches everywhere he goes.
Jim 15 years ago

And now for the Judge to yell at me about fffrrreeeeeedddooommm.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Okay, let's call that one a win. Good, solid team effort.

Now, let's all talk smack about fiscal meth since he's not here.
Jim 15 years ago

Seriously; FUCK fiscal meth. I hate that queer.
1. Jim 15 years ago
  
  Little known fact: Fiscal Meth is a sock puppet for Tony, who in turn is a sock puppet for Max.
  1. Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
    
    Hey! Let's dial that back. Methy's a good egg.
    1. Jim 15 years ago
      
      Yeah I love him, I was just kidding. Besides, FM, Tony, and Max are all just Russian nesting dolls for...OLD MEXICAN.
      1. Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
        
        That I can believe.
        
        capitol l 15 years ago
        
        Would that make OM the Keyser Soze of H&R?
    2. capitol l 15 years ago
      
      I created fiscal as an imaginary friend to stosselblog with, and he created his own universe; escaping into the webz.
      
      I think that he lives in Balko's iphone now.
      1. Jim 15 years ago
        
        Come the singularity, we might all live in Balko's iphone...where we will be abused by police officers every...single...day.
      2. Fiscal Meth 15 years ago
        
        Yet I shall one day emerge victorious with a long gray beard earned in a battle attrition against the weber-tubez and I shall be live bloggier than ever!(the epic battle stuff just represents overtime at work)
2. Fiscal Meth 15 years ago
  
  I predict that the Nielsen ratings for this little liveblog will show a sharp decline in your late-night, light-bulb-drugs-smokin demographic if you're not careful.
  1. Fiscal Meth 15 years ago
    
    JIM!
    1. Jim 15 years ago
      
      ;P You know I love you baby!
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Oooo, Cavanaugh is going to be on Freedom Watch.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Ha, smooth, Judge. Slipping that question in to see if Bachmann is going to run for primary loser.
Jim 15 years ago

Pffft, I can't stand Bachmann. I turned on Family Guy. But I will watch Cavanaugh.
1. Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
  
  Meh, I'm out. Check you next week, suckas!
  
  (Go Pens.)
  1. Jim 15 years ago
    
    I'm amazed at the number of hockey fans on this website. Bleh. Next week.

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