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Ars Technica brings us an update to an earlier story in which a court case was thrown out when a police officer's body cam showed him planting drugs before 'finding' them immediately after. Now prosecutors in Maryland are reviewing other body-cam footage and have already thrown out 34 criminal cases with many more under review:
The Baltimore Police Department's body cams, like many across the nation, capture footage 30 seconds before an officer presses the record button. The footage was turned over to defense attorneys as part of a drug prosecution - and that's when the misdeed was uncovered.
[...] "We are dismissing those cases which relied exclusively on the credibility of these officers," Mosby told a news conference Friday. She said the dismissed cases, some of which have already been prosecuted, involved weapons and drugs.
Lesson learned cops - plant drugs, wait 30 seconds, then turn on the camera!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @08:00PM
First, you have to address the fact that these skanks shouldn't be enforcing the so-called "drug war" in the first place. All of this "lets illegally persecute and steal from people while using proper procedure" is not the issue. The People will only support the cops if they are retrained to learn about *The Constitution* and how to identify and catch *actual criminals*. Hint: exercising the right of free association(gangs/cults) or the right to pursue happiness/free religion(shoot up heroin) is not criminal. If stupidity is a crime then arrest yourself, motherfucker. The criminal is the piece of shit that is destroying the country by making unconstitutional laws. Go arrest that stupid old fuck, you seditious whores. Make the slave traders in government/private prisons, etc get jobs like the rest of us. Or you could just do your *constitutional duty* as a citizen and ignore and fight against unconstitutional laws. tell your bosses to fuck off. I've done it. why can't you tough guys? I would instantly stand behind any cops who had the balls to be real americans. why aren't police unions giving the lawmakers a list of "shit we're not enforcing and why"? Instead, you see the police unions all around the country just towing the BS line. Seditious whores...