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In January 2013, police raided the home of a Cleveland drug dealer, saying in a search warrant that an informant had recently bought crack cocaine there.
But the drug dealer had surveillance cameras that proved the officers were lying. He gave the tapes to his lawyer, who showed the FBI. The feds then worked to uncover a massive scandal of a rogue street-crimes unit that robbed and framed drug suspects who felt they had no choice but plead guilty to fraudulent charges.
Four years later, authorities are still unwinding the damage.
Three cops who worked for the city of East Cleveland are in prison. Cases against 22 alleged drug dealers have been dismissed. Authorities are searching for another 21 people who are eligible to have their convictions tossed. On top of those injustices, there is a slim chance that any of them will be fully reimbursed, because the disgraced officers and their former employer don't have the money.
Source: NBC News
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Tuesday March 28 2017, @10:31PM (5 children)
You do have personal hire/fire power. So does everyone else in your locality. It's called a vote.
And that's fine as long as my vote is the only one that counts and the results of my vote are immediately carried out without question. Keep in mind that I'm not talking about the usual tripe, my ass is supposedly on the line here with complete fiscal responsibility and possibly legal responsibility as well. Thus, I demand more power and control to reflect that supposed vastly enlarged responsibility.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @12:27AM (4 children)
The only thing enlarged might be your forehead if you think you are special enough to deserve the power our president does not even have. You might want to look up the definition of the word 'hyperbole' it might be relevant. Your ass is safe since this whole idea is bogus. Relax, and take your meds it might help.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 29 2017, @03:12AM (3 children)
The only thing enlarged might be your forehead if you think you are special enough to deserve the power our president does not even have.
Deserve? No. It's power commensurate to the responsibility. If you don't like me having that level of power, then don't try to give me that level of responsibility.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday March 29 2017, @11:32AM (2 children)
If someone claims I have the power to bring about X, yet someone has equal power to prevent or undo X, then I do not have the power to bring about X, and that person's claims are utterly void.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 30 2017, @12:56AM (1 child)
To use the inevitable car analogy, it's much easier to avoid wrapping your car around a tree, when it faithfully executes your intent (such as a jerk on the steering wheel moving you towards the center of the road and brakes that slow you down, should you be traveling at excessive speed) rather than having oh a 40% chance the vehicle does exactly the wrong thing instead.
And how can anyone justify holding you completely responsible for an accident, when they force you into this dodgy vehicle that you have so little control over and which will zoom off the road in a few hundred yards no matter how frantically you flail at the steering wheel and stamp on the brake pedal?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday March 30 2017, @09:09AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves