As more Americans obtain smartphones, more people are equipped with quality cameras. This means that more people are holding police officers accountable by recording their interactions with police and uploading the videos – which sometimes contain abhorrent police behavior – to social media, where the content quickly spreads like wildfire across the internet. Now, police officers from Santa Ana, California, believe they have come up with a creative solution to get people to stop uploading videos of cops to sites like YouTube.

These California cops are now blasting Disney music at all hours of the day, so the music gets captured in the videos. People cannot upload videos with Disney music because it violates copyright laws. That’s why Santa Ana police officers were caught blasting music from classic Disney movies like Encanto, Toy Story, and Mulan. Santa Ana residents were bombarded with loud Disney songs like You’ve Got a Friend in Me, We Don’t Talk About Bruno and Reflection around 11 p.m. at night.

Locals were furious because the police officers were playing the music so loudly that it interrupted sleep and relaxing nighttime activities. Now, officials across Santa Ana, including a city councilman, have vowed to force Santa Ana cops to stop blasting Disney music as a creative tactic to prevent people from uploading rouge videos of police officers.

Santa Ana deployed the anti-recording tactic on April 4, 2022 – about a year after cops in Oakland, California, blasted Taylor Swift’s 2014 hit Blank Space while confronting a group of activists who they wanted to arrest. The Oakland cops thought that by including the hit song, activists would not be able to obtain video footage that they could legally upload to the internet. Despite the cops’ attempts, video footage from the incident remains live on YouTube and other channels online.

In Santa Ana, cops pulled onto a residential street and started blasting Un Poco Loco from the Disney film Coco. After playing the song at top volume, they moved on to Toy Story’s hit track, You’ve Got a Friend in Me.

The cameraman asked: “You guys get paid to listen to music?”

Police were confronted by local officials. Santa Ana City Councilman Johnathan Hernandez asked: “Why are you playing Disney music? Do you live here?”

The officer replied: “No, I don’t, sir.”

Hernandez added: “Well, maybe you should treat us with respect.”

The video of the Santa Ana police was shared on the Santa Ana Audits YouTube channel. The channel monitors the behavior of local police and has tens of thousands of views.

The Disney music outraged a lot of California residents, so the Santa Ana Chief of Police, David Valentin, is now looking into the incident.

“My expectation is that all police department employees perform their duties with dignity and respect in the community we are hired to serve,” said the chief.

Hernandez was not impressed, and believed cops were trying to prevent the public from uploading videos to social media.

“I’m embarrassed that this is how you’re treating my neighbors. There are children here,” Hernandez said. He added to the Post: “If you work for the public and there are numerous people out recording you telling you to please turn it off, why wouldn’t anyone in their right mind stop that?”