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- oldhat, on 12/07/2008, -0/+15Yes, my friends, our time is coming.
Do not despair. Heroes are on the way. - inactive, on 12/08/2008, -1/+11Since these criminal cops have no qualms about falsifying search-warrant info, who knows how many other crimes they commit??? They probably frame people too!!!
- imacoder, on 12/08/2008, -0/+8At some point law enforcement lost track of the fact that...
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.” -Blackstone - aequabilitas, on 12/08/2008, -0/+6The thing I didn't see here, which I would've liked to have seen, is the arrest of the Kopbusters' lawyer. Also, footage of the confrontation between Kopbusters/media and the police following the arrest.
Furthermore, handcuffing a man and dragging him off to jail when he has not committed or been charged with ANY crime should be kidnapping, plain and simple. The offenders should be tried in a court of law, just like I would be if I tried to handcuff someone and drag them away without a reason.
In this country we need our police to be held accountable to the laws they are expected to enforce. Furthermore, if they break those laws, even in the line of duty, they should be subject to the same charges and penalties that any citizen would be. Until this is the case, police will abuse their power and the system throughout the course of their dealings with American citizens. - megamod, on 12/07/2008, -0/+6I see a weird flash at 40 secs in...wow
lol were they taking pictures?
"OH NO THEY'RE GROWING X-MAS TREES, MUST...GET...EVIDENCE!"
Maybe they were thinking on getting it photoshopped later to make it look like pot. Gosh I love their state of total confusion. - imacoder, on 12/08/2008, -0/+4A tip-off still wouldn't make it legal.
- ElHeffe, on 12/08/2008, -0/+3He can look how ever he want just as long as he keeps do'in what he's do'in
- inactive, on 12/08/2008, -0/+3This is awesome. I hate cops.
- johlorax, on 12/08/2008, -0/+3THIS is democracy in action. Ordinary citizens using technology to expose corruption and hypocrisy. We need lots more of this and fewer videos of cute cats and skaters busting their nuts!
- libervisco, on 12/12/2008, -0/+1Unjust laws are meant to be broken.
- mf2112, on 12/08/2008, -0/+1They drive through the neighborhoods with FLIR cameras.
- quidpro, on 12/12/2008, -0/+1kopbusters.com and nevergerbusted.com links don't work for me. I wanted to find out what the sweatshirt and poster said.
- paulvelte, on 12/16/2008, -0/+1You hit the nail on the head Insidejob. As an attorney of 20 years, I learned the hard way that there is no way to "get behind the lie" that whows up in almost every search warrant: "a reliable informant reported..." Cops are allowed to keep the informant's identity secret and of course, his past which is what supposedly makes him "reliable." Under the current state of the law, there is no way for me to test to see if the informant really was reliable, or if he even really existed. If they say a reliable informant said it, I have to accept it. And if anyone thinks humans don't abuse power when they know no one can question their authority, you don't know human nature. In any system, there *must* always be someone with the right to question your work to ensure*some* integrity.
- inactive, on 12/08/2008, -0/+1ha ha ha ha ha ha. lets all do this.
- zephyr42, on 12/08/2008, -0/+1I wasn't too excited about Barry's first video just because of the negative tone helping people break the law can bring, but this is probably the best way he can put his talents.
- rodgerdale, on 12/10/2008, -0/+0I guess I'm behind the times. What is FLIR cameras? In my lifetime I have personally known five different law officers (fairly close). ALL of them were as crooked as snakes. If you follow one long enough while he is on patrol, you WILL find them breaking the law. They operate as if they are above the law. I followed one one time in Mont. Al. only for about one mile and he broke the speed limit without his warning devices on, changed lanes on a multi lane hwy. all the way from the left inside to the far right lane without a signal, turned right on red without stopping, and didn't even appear to be in a hurry. Just normal patrol. I didn't get to see if he was wearing a seatbelt, probably not. Since then I've payed close attention when I get behind one patrolling and they ALL will break the law if you watch long enough. Some of the ones I've known were family members. They are out of control big time.
- MrBlueShirt89, on 12/10/2008, -0/+0I think it is so funny that people expect the police to be honest 100 percent of the time. It is also funny that people believe the police should not lie to criminals. Should we really expect the police to tell the absolute truth to a person who does not value the truth. Also people that think the police should perform their job flawlessly should go on a ride along to see just how difficult and stressful the job actually is. People must realize that officers have to bend the rules sometimes to get to calls, or help a fellow officer. Lets put it this way, if you knew a family member were in serious danger, would you go the speed limit? No you would not, you would haul ass and say to hell with the rules.
- EhBlueDuck, on 12/08/2008, -2/+1Wish our hero would lose the Fu Manchu and the Mullet.
I'd rather he wore a cape. - Gumbos, on 12/08/2008, -6/+2What I don't understand is how the cops came in 24 hours. There is no way the aerial surveillance is taken THAT often. They probably tipped the cops off. The article talks about ways in which cops lie to get a warrant, but how much of the evidence for this raid was given to the cops by Barry Cooper? The article says that the cops wouldn't give up what the search warrant said, but surely they had some idea?
There is no way a 400w metal halide bulb such as that one in an empty house would attract cops within 24 hours without a tip off.
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