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Here is a demo of modern surveillance systems installed to watch bus passengers. This one is from Orange County CA and it has 7 cameras rolling at all times. http://www.fullertonsfuture.org/2011/octa-uncut/

Fullerton Police Patrol Officer Kelly Mejia used the well-known stealing technique of placing a bag (in this case, a bag of chicken) http://www.fullertonsfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mejia-Arrest.pdf over the item and then removing both. People steal cell phones using this method all the time. It happened to me on a bus in Kansas City, MO.

That is a very interesting arrest affidavit. Did you see the "Ethnicity" blank on the form they have in addition to the actual "Race" blank? It has two check boxes. "Hispanic" and "Not Hispanic".

Racially profile much, Florida?

Fullerton Police Patrol Officer Kelly Mejia used the well-known stealing technique of placing a bag (in this case, a bag of chicken) http://www.fullertonsfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mejia-Arrest.pdf over the item and then removing both. People steal cell phones using this method all the time. It happened to me on a bus in Kansas City, MO. Kelly Mejia makes 86K$US/year and has been an patrol officer for 6 years. When confronted about the pad, she said she was going to keep it. I have found that most people on the internet assume police are honest, and people are going to say this officer was just the unusual bad apple. The opposite is true. If a person is a cop, the person is a lier and a thief. This officer was so used to stealing she assumed she was going to get away with it (because she was a cop) and was indignant when confronted. What's actually amazing about this story is that the fellow officers chose to arrest her. She must have done or said something to anger them. I'm taking bets. I say she doesn't do a day in jail.

Before someone pounces on my spelling, allow me to provide my own correction: a cop is a "lier" if she lies in wait for an ipod to steal. She is a "liar" if afterwards she claims she innocently found it.
I should have used "liar" in the sentence of my earlier post. Corrected: If a person is a cop, the person is a liar and a thief.

Fullerton Police Patrol Officer Kelly Mejia used the well-known stealing technique of placing a bag (in this case, a bag of chicken) http://www.fullertonsfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mejia-Arrest.pdf over the item and then removing both. People steal cell phones using this method all the time. It happened to me on a bus in Kansas City, MO.
Kelly Mejia makes 86K$US/year and has been an patrol officer for 6 years. When confronted about the pad, she said she was going to keep it.
I have found that most people on the internet assume police are honest, and people are going to say this officer was just the unusual bad apple. The opposite is true. If a person is a cop, the person is a lier and a thief. This officer was so used to stealing she assumed she was going to get away with it (because she was a cop) and was indignant when confronted.
What's actually amazing about this story is that the fellow officers chose to arrest her. She must have done or said something to anger them.
I'm taking bets. I say she doesn't do a day in jail.

It's true, they really do FORCE parents to buy the laptop. Listen to the presentation in this video - http://www.fullertonsfuture.org/2009/fullerton-school-laptop-program/

They did this in Fullerton, CA. There is a story and a video clip here: http://www.fullertonsfuture.org/2009/fullerton-school-laptop-program/ If you didn't pay $1,500 for an Apple laptop, your kid would get shipped off to another school on the other side of town. The ACLU got involved, but settled for a weak compromise - if you submit your personal financial information to the school district, they may decide that you can get public assistance. Otherwise, you are forced to pay for the laptop.