I imagined it. In my imagination, the urinals had partitions, and the cop followed the etiquette by leaving a buffer urinal between us. My crotch was therefore never visible to the camera.
I also imagined that the cop didn't wash his hands afterward, and I didn't know what to do about it, or even if I could do anything about it. Employees have to wash their hands at restaurants, right? Cops touch all kinds of stuff with their hands. If I file a complaint, would they even do anything about it? And then if I ever encounter that cop and act sort of weird because I'm thinking about whether he's going to touch me and get his junk-cteria and splashback on me, will he take it as reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing, and make it self-fulfilling?
The eye in the center of a cop's chest is just like the eyes in their head, and the eyes in the head of a non-cop. If my junk is filmed, it is because I was acting in such a way that any random passer-by could have seen it. My expectation of privacy is that only people of the same sex will even have the chance, but that's about it. I don't drop my pants without at least a privacy lock. Anyone could walk in to a public toilet, from a cop with an active body cam, to the entire sousaphone section of a marching band (based on a true story).
It is more concerning for instances where a cop is executing a warrant in a place where there is a genuine expectation of privacy, such as a suspect's own bedroom. Those videos would have to be kept under lock and key until some trustworthy individual can determine that the public has an interest in seeing them that outweighs the individual's right to privacy.
I also imagined that the cop didn't wash his hands afterward, and I didn't know what to do about it, or even if I could do anything about it. Employees have to wash their hands at restaurants, right? Cops touch all kinds of stuff with their hands. If I file a complaint, would they even do anything about it? And then if I ever encounter that cop and act sort of weird because I'm thinking about whether he's going to touch me and get his junk-cteria and splashback on me, will he take it as reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing, and make it self-fulfilling?
The eye in the center of a cop's chest is just like the eyes in their head, and the eyes in the head of a non-cop. If my junk is filmed, it is because I was acting in such a way that any random passer-by could have seen it. My expectation of privacy is that only people of the same sex will even have the chance, but that's about it. I don't drop my pants without at least a privacy lock. Anyone could walk in to a public toilet, from a cop with an active body cam, to the entire sousaphone section of a marching band (based on a true story).
It is more concerning for instances where a cop is executing a warrant in a place where there is a genuine expectation of privacy, such as a suspect's own bedroom. Those videos would have to be kept under lock and key until some trustworthy individual can determine that the public has an interest in seeing them that outweighs the individual's right to privacy.