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Police who raided a marijuana store, destroying security cameras and the DVR, harassing the store's customers, consuming edible marijuana products, and playing darts, were caught on camera. The cops claim that said recording is illegal because the cops had an expectation of privacy after destroying all of the security cameras.
I wish I could make up this stuff.
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Police Claim Recording of Marijuana Dispensary Raid is Illegal
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2015, @05:36PM
If only you were correct.
I am not so sure there are *any* good cops.
In the first 2 months of 2015, US cops killed 3 people per day. Unfortunately, we did not get many of these on video, so the cop stories *always* win. You know, "I thought he was reaching for a gun, so I shot him 30 times, in the back, while he was handcuffed, face down on the ground." Of course, not counted in this number are the number of people who "commit suicide" in their cells-- somehow beating themselves senseless, then hanging themselves in their cells-- sometimes while in shackles even! Houdini would be impressed.
Whenever there is an atrocity caught on tape, you see *all* the other officers who respond always trying to cover up the crime-- *never* arresting the cops who committed the original criminal act. They will seize bystanders' cameras / phones, to try to cover it up, even arrest witnesses who refuse, etc.-- these cops are all accessories to the original crime (often torture and murder).
And, then there are the videotaped incidents like the killing by 20 cops on the Mexican border in San Diego. All 20 participated in the beating of a man to death (his crime that enraged the officers to torture-murder him was asking to speak to an attorney). Not one fucking cop tried to stop it. Each one of them would walk up to the man being held down, and kick him in the sides and in the face (and especially in his leg that he had made the mistake of telling the cops was injured). Now the children of a man who was described as a devoted father are suffering too.
Occasionally, less horrific incident are filmed that demonstrate the sadistic nature of cops. Like the cop running out and pushing over a cyclist into the street, for no goddamn reason. Cops are indistinguishable from the worst of worst street gangs except that cops act with impunity.
So, tell me, what evidence to do you have that good cops exist, and that if they do, that they are not such a vanishingly small minority, as to not matter.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2015, @08:07PM
To sum up an answer for you... Act like a thug, get treated like a thug. They should bring back old western justice, crime rates would drop fast.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2015, @09:18PM
Most cops would get shot for acting like thugs or defending their thug buddies. They're lucky we don't have old western 'justice'.