WAR AGAINST PHOTOGRAPHY UPDATE: Police accountability activists and their supporters celebrate court victory. “Northwestern Assistant District Attorney Jeffrey Banks argued that because the officers were unaware their images were transmitted to a third party and uploaded to the Web, that process took place in secrecy — a violation of a so-called wiretapping statute forbidding the secret recording or hearing of a conversation, or aiding in the transmission or hearing of that conversation.” He should be embarrassed to have his name associated with this dumb argument. Let me suggest some remedial reading.