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Marijuana Dispensary wins $100,000!
When Sky High Holistic was subject to a police raid, it was hardly the end of the business. In fact, it ironically gave the marijuana dispensary a big boost, $100,000 to be exact.
The money comes from a lawsuit alleging police harassment of the marijuana dispensary, settled by the City of Santa Ana this week. Santa Ana has also agreed to drop charges against a dozen employees accused of illegally operating.
It's a good thing the cameras were on; The dispensary cameras, that is. Apparently, the cops hung around the establishment long after the raid occurred, playing darts and making demeaning comments about the staff. And once they got comfortable, they indulged in Sky High pot-laced edibles.
Article:
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/pot-shop-busts-cops-surveillance-cam-wins-100000
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Previously: Police Claim Recording of Marijuana Dispensary Raid is Illegal
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Gaaark on Monday October 31 2016, @01:27PM
Are cops just getting stupider?
Is their whole hiring process just bad?
WTF?
Don't be stupid! Yes. YOU!
Just the facts, ma'am? No thanks... but i does got the munchies!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @02:49PM
> Are cops just getting stupider?
No. They thought they had destroyed the cameras before they decided to party.
They just missed one because it was hidden.
Decoys FTW!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @03:11PM
No, this is how cops have always been. A friend of mine owned a bar many years ago, and he told me how some 30 years ago it was broken into and the cops showed up to "help guard it" and helped themselves to ton of his booze while they "stood watch." Only different between Police and criminals most of the time is we give the police a badge.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday October 31 2016, @06:04PM
Exactly.
They're not getting stupider, they're getting caught (for not getting smarter about ubiquitous cameras).
(Score: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Monday October 31 2016, @06:43PM
No, not at all.
What I'm coming to realize is that the cops were *always* like this. In learning about history I've been understanding that Chicago cops quite often moonlighted as enforcers and assassins against organized labor. Something like that would've been quite hard to believe in those days. Normal people couldn't or wouldn't bring themselves to do so because the implications were that horrible and easier to deny.
Fast forward to a time with ubiquitous surveillance and at a cheap enough price that it is affordable by the masses. Now all of the sudden we have video, after video, after video, after video of cops acting dishonorably to say the least, and murderous at worst?
Unlikely. It's far more likely that our increases in technology are simply shining the light into dark places... and scattering the cockroaches that lived comfortably in the dark.
In the last 10 years we've had more proof and unexpected disclosures of government malfeasance and corruption to the extent now that denial of the problem is impossible. Instead of cops, the good ones left, fighting for reform and purification of their ranks, they use labor organizations (who they abused in the past when it suited them) to defend themselves against transparency and our rights to monitor them.
If any part of government is truly broken, it's law enforcement.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.