It’s OK for law enforcement to wiretap citizens, but not OK for citizens to document their encounters with police. Massachusett’s “highest court on Friday upheld the conviction of a man who secretly recorded police after they pulled him over.”

Hyde, a rock musician, said he recorded Abington police because he thought they unfairly targeted him for a traffic stop on Oct. 26, 1998, because of his long hair, leather jacket and his sports car. Hyde recorded officers using an obscenity, asking him if he had any cocaine in his car, and threatening to send him to jail. Several days later, he brought the tape to police headquarters to try to prove he was harassed. Instead, police charged Hyde with unlawful wiretapping.

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