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- replaysMike, on 06/15/2009, -3/+303Cops who do this intentionally should get the maximum sentance allowed under the law - and a swift beating to the nuts with a sock full of nickels. I'm sure honest cops would agree. Good story.
- joshthegreat200, on 06/15/2009, -5/+209Makes you wonder how many people are in jail right now that shouldnt be...
The American legal system and its law enforcement does more damage to American families than any terrorist organization out there. - vtnerd, on 06/15/2009, -0/+198Punishments for cops should be 5 or 10 times more severe than for civilains. They know the law and have no excuse for breaking it.
- thegsa, on 06/15/2009, -2/+173They should sue for 10 million bucks, the officers pension and file criminal charges
That'll teach them. - mejf2loy, on 06/14/2009, -6/+163What!? Everyone knows cops can do no wrong.
/s - Misinformant, on 06/15/2009, -3/+120Only takes the actions of a few bad cops to taint the rep of the good ones. The department had better make a thorough example of them and put them away for as long as the law allows.
- deathandtaverns, on 06/15/2009, -1/+75it seems to me that this would be easy to fix. Say that a police officer's word is no better than anyone else. We have tiny microphones and video recording devices that a police officer should wear at all times and require video/audio evidence for testimony and to prove the validity of searches.
- v3rtex7740, on 06/15/2009, -0/+68I think they did.
And I think it will. - gemlarin, on 06/15/2009, -2/+63Another reason that the jail are overflowing with petty offenders (many of which are likely not guilty) and why America has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. And where has it got us?
- allisonaxe, on 06/15/2009, -3/+60A good cop needs evidence to catch a suspect, but a *great* cop doesn't let such petty things as evidence and witnesses get in the way of nabbing a yogurt-sucking creep.
- TheSkunkMonkey, on 06/15/2009, -0/+51I fear my local police more than any terrorist.
Prisons are run for profit. To make this profit they need prisoners. This means the system must continue to produce prisoners to keep the business model afloat. So even if you eliminated all crime from an area, the system would still need to produce prisoners.
We need to end the for-profit prison system. - charm803, on 06/15/2009, -1/+47As someone who works closely with law enforcement, the best thing communities can do is hold officers accountable.
There has been major drama of dirty cops where I live, but because of public outrage, those cases always get investigated, and cops get fired. It happens, but because we hold them accountable.
It's great that it's on digg, but that's not enough. Write to the Chief of Police, write to the local newspapers where it's happening (they do love investigative stories), publicly call them out, blog it out, do what you can to bring attention to the situation.
They are here to protect and serve, but it's out duty to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to do.
It's a sort of checks and balances for our justice system. - StopTheLie, on 06/15/2009, -2/+46The "Drug war" does NOT stop people from accessing / using drugs...instead, it fuels organized crime and related violence, costs taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, stomps on basic civil liberties, and corrupts our justice system.
Or, to put that another way: Let's make alcohol illegal again. It won't stop people from drinking, it will fund organized crime, it will cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, it will violate basic civil liberties, and it will further corrupt our justice system. All in favor? - werkerholic, on 06/15/2009, -2/+44Cops have too much power. That power comes through assumption and statistics as opposed to actual investigation, which is what they get paid for. I live in an affluent neighborhood, live in a decent home, and drive a decent car, but police in the San Jose/Santa Clara area feel compelled to "run my plates" at every turn. I guess it's illegal / suspicious to be a black Computer Engineer.
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"Stop every black man that comes through our town"
- Palo Alto Police Chief
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- keraneuology, on 06/15/2009, -2/+40You won't find any "honest" cops who agree. Cops protect cops. If it is a dirty cop the most you'll ever get is silence on the part of the comparatively good ones.
- inactive, on 06/15/2009, -6/+44When does the police goes after real criminals? The day they stop bribing them.
- kaosethema, on 06/15/2009, -8/+45omg, cops lied?!?!?
/s - srs2000, on 06/15/2009, -5/+40Maximo Colon....
I can't help but snicker at the name. - lazerflesh, on 06/15/2009, -3/+34Welcome to, what.... the beginning of our justice system ?
- Uberperson, on 06/15/2009, -3/+34Apparently our public servants are not getting enough tips.
- psolms, on 06/15/2009, -0/+28they did, and ***** i hope they get it.
- HeavyCaliber, on 06/15/2009, -2/+29The problem is that they protect eachother even in cases like this. There's too much "loyalty" between cops.
- inactive, on 06/15/2009, -0/+27"Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes."
Abraham Lincoln
"A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
Abraham Lincoln - ddawggin, on 06/15/2009, -3/+29To be fair, those guys do look like drug dealers so it wasn't REALLY a lie.
/s - SpykeKelm, on 06/15/2009, -0/+26Thank god for drug laws, they're bringing in guilty people by the.... oh wait...
- Genecalypse, on 06/15/2009, -6/+31I really hate viewing police in such a negative manner but things like this make it so hard not to. I know theirs some honest cops, but it really just takes an incident like this to plague their whole image.
- AaronCo, on 06/15/2009, -2/+26This is digg, you forgot your /s
- inactive, on 06/15/2009, -0/+24"On May 13, another NYPD officer was arrested for plotting to invade a Manhattan apartment where he hoped to steal $900,000 in drug money."
What the hell, is this The Shield? It's simple, you have two jobs: PROTECT AND SERVE. To all the good cops out there who knows this already, thank you for your service. To the rest of you: GO TO HELL. - diggerwut, on 06/15/2009, -0/+23Max Colon. Lucky he didn't get sent to jail, otherwise he'll live up to his name.
- RazorEye, on 06/15/2009, -2/+25While I agreed with the sock and nuts aspect, the nickels leave something lacking.....
Nails! Now a sock full of nails hitting them in the nuts, now that would be better. - archimago42, on 06/15/2009, -1/+23The higher-ups at this station/precinct should be investigated immediately. I've been saddled with false charges before and trust me, without video there is absolutely nothing you can do. I was arrested for having beer in a dorm room and when I arrived in court I read the report which stated I had violently assaulted the first officer before the others showed up (i.e. literally throwing him around the hallway so he was "barely able to defend himself"). In reality I never touched him and he was over twice my size and I was not handcuffed until just before I was arrested some 25 minutes later. He was a blatant liar. The town is filled with tons of these stories and if there is an attempt to file any type of complaint the police laugh and tell you to ***** off.
ALL the higher ups in these types of outfits know who's dirty. EVERY SINGLE ONE of them, just ask real cops. They either do nothing or actively encourage it, which is the case in this town. Until those types of leaders pay for the transgressions and criminal acts under them this type of thing will never stop. - Klaky, on 06/15/2009, -1/+22He never said he hated cops. He simply implied they are human and can either screw up, have bad judgment, or be greedy.
- TonyLocNE, on 06/15/2009, -2/+22I buried him because I sat for three minutes trying to decipher his first sentence...
- GovernmentsGun, on 06/15/2009, -2/+21Cops? Being less than honest? Who knew?
- sodade, on 06/15/2009, -0/+18and that's why it is time for a good weeding.
- A11YND, on 06/15/2009, -0/+18There's an old saying:
Two crooked cops makes four new criminals. - charm803, on 06/15/2009, -0/+17Yes. LAPD just put away one of their own in a murder investigation that was 23 years old.
Stephanie Lazarus was a rookie cop when she killed her ex's new wife. She got rid of the gun and for 23 years, she got away with murder.
They re-opened the case, and without telling Lazarus, they got her DNA from a bite mark on the victim, matched it to her by getting a discarded cup or fork (I forget which) and she's now in jail.
http://www.venturacountycrimeblog.com/2009/06/crim ...
Not all cops are dirty, but those are the stories we hear. - kingmanic, on 06/15/2009, -0/+17gemlarin: I think you missed his joke. He's saying being a cop is a safer job because they no longer arrest or deal with criminals. They instead arrest and deal with disempowered people they can frame.
- ASfinkterSezWut, on 06/15/2009, -0/+17They did. And nothing will change.
- porscheblack, on 06/15/2009, -1/+17I really don't know where to begin... i don't care if i get dugg down for this, but this is ***** ridiculous. MOST cops are at least partially corrupt and culpable? where the ***** do you get that statistic? most implies more than 50%, and if more than 50% of the cops in the U.S. were corrupt, then you'd be in jail already.
Cops are people, just like everyone else. What you do is not who you are. In any profession you get ***** and people that shouldn't be there, and it's the same w/cops. Yes there are bad cops, but there are also bad bankers, corrupt investors, corrupt programmers and so on... my father's a police officer and I've been around cops all my life, and yes, sometimes they do illegal things, such as speed, etc... but it's the same ***** every other person does... and that's the bottom line, they're ***** people. if you're so devout and honest, why the ***** don't you become a cop and change it?
By the way, there was a police officer that was just killed in NE PA trying to save a kidnapped child... there's a community that I'm willing to bet will disagree with you. - gemlarin, on 06/15/2009, -1/+16Oh really? You really believe that the streets are any safer for cops or citizens with the prisons overflowing? The US is #24 in murder rates in the world. Right behind Bulgaria and Uruguay. But cops are not satisfied with taking the real criminals off the streets and moving America further down the list. Instead they are planting evidence and locking up non violent offenders. How many of these stories need to hit the front pages of news outlets across America before cop apologists learn to shut the ***** up, and the courts start to take aggressive action against the corruption in law enforcement?
- footsy, on 06/15/2009, -7/+22Cops are pathological liers. It must be in their train.ing. It could be this culture of deception that leads to such a problem.
- Nerys, on 06/15/2009, -1/+16I hope they win as well seeing as how this has literally ruined there lives.
- inactive, on 06/15/2009, -1/+16@Vap
Yep, except the bad ones would be shielded from their actions by the department becuase they are "part of the team."
The few bad don't ruin the batch, it's the fact that they never admit there is bad and will always try to pass off the poison as legitimate rather then question where their over empowerment leads that poisons it. - Novagenesis, on 06/15/2009, -0/+14I doubt it. Between wrongful prosecutions, oversentencing (for 20 years, "tough on crime" has been the password into political office), and unjust laws, there's a lot of people in prison who don't deserve to be.
- inactive, on 06/15/2009, -0/+13We incarcerate more people than big, oppressive, communist China.That's not just per capita, either, but sheer amount of prisoners.
- Nerys, on 06/15/2009, -7/+20Worse it is there job to UPHOLD the law and they are GRANTED the privilidge of power/authority to uphold the law even to KILL you or DESTROY YOUR LIFE to uphold that law.
The punishment should be commensurate with the responsibility given so officers should garner much harsher penalties when they commit a crime.
also as far as I am concerned MOST cops are at least partially corrupt and culpable.
The bad ones commit crimes and the good ones do nothing about it. Worse they protect lie and obfuscate to bury there crimes.
That makes them even WORSE than the bad cops. - GovernmentsGun, on 06/15/2009, -2/+14@Misinformant
See, that's the key. Your cousins have the guns, and the willingness to use them. You can deduce a bit from that by itself.
And I used to work in law enforcement. If they're anything like you're making them out to be, they're the same types of people that helped me decide to leave the field. Too many dirty officers looking for an excuse. - djskyler, on 06/15/2009, -1/+13What bad guys? These cops were trying to score coke in a bar, not on school grounds. All the good this does is funnel drug profits into police departments so they can buy more tasers to zap us with.
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