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Cop who made pot brownies will avoid charges
I would advise you to read that article before you read the rest of my post:
There is a quote in the article that follows, "“If you’re a cop and you’re arresting people and you’re confiscating the marijuana and keeping it yourself, that’s bad. That’s real bad,” said City Councilman Doug Thomas." -Many of you know that I have just been "released" from a rehabilitation program. My roomate in that program was a State Trooper in New Orleans. He had many stories of stopping people due to them being under the influence of drugs, and him confiscating the drugs and keeping them for himself. He would turn in a small bit and fabricate a report.
He got away with this, nonstop. He still had his badge when he was telling me this. The thing that struck me, however, was the story he told me about a conversation he had once with various different law enforcement officers. Apparently this happens a lot, and, by what he said, the PD knows it is going on and doesn't really care all that much.
He was an interesting character nonetheless. But the reason I posted this was that I want to know your guys' opinion on this article.
-Murt
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I could really care less. Marijuana should be legalized. A lot more harmful stuff out there like alcohol and cigs... and alcohol and cigs at the same time (a lot of people do that).
The only thing the cop did wrong was arrest and ruin their lives over inhaling some smoke and then stealing the marijuana.
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"When Saddam flew that plane into those buildings, I knew it was time to kick some Iranian ass!"
-cheer leading, flag waving American
"Oh noes, we ates the brownies and now we are dying!"
Nothing new here the state of law enforcement is unaacapable in this country. If you search around the net you will find countless numbers of these stories about dozens of broken laws by policemen. The problem is we the public have allowed the level of expected behavior to slip. Hearing about corrupt police officers is nothing new. It is barely news worthy anymore. Sure pot should be legal and who cares? Maybe the ass holes sittin in a cell right now that that cop put there and in return stole their stash from. It is the law and why should this guy get a break from his comrades? Who knows exactly what this guy knows. shit that information could take down half his department if he decides to try and take the heat of himself. All these uniformed thugs do is terrorize the public while commiting the very crimes they should be stopping. Time for an overhaul of our justice system I believe.
Not at all surprising to me.
Cops shoot the wrong person, or some other innocent? Tough shit, citizen, shouldn't have been standing in the way of my bullets.
Quota time, and you happen to look a bit "different"? Enjoy your ticket for whatever BS they feel like charging you with.
Busted for DWB? Be glad if you make it out of that one alive.
If ever there were a reason I would support concealed weapon permits for people, it'd be so they could defend themselves against the police.
*Notice: The views expressed in this post are solely those of the author... got sick of holding backspace.
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ParaTrooper, That guy that used to mod the MMORPG.com forums.
it is the tampering with evidence that is bad here not being high.
Is marijuana all that bad? My views on it have softened over the years, it's not the worst thing in the world. If they legalized it tomorrow I could care less. But it's against the law, and it's especially against the law to not only confiscate it, but to use it or sell it on your own. That is flagrant corruption. There may be alot of bad cops in this world, but there are alot of good ones, too. Not all cops do this sort of thing.
If police were free to pick and choose which laws they felt were okay to break, where would we be? A cop decides he's pro-life and busts up an abortion clinic? A cop decides his kids aren't well off enough and starts collecting protection money from local businesses? A cop decides to take contraband and sell it for profit, or use it for himself and his wife. If this were cocaine the issue might be different to some. Marijuana is seen as not so big a deal, but the act of corruption is no different. The cop violated his badge.
There are alot of police who believe in the honor of their badge, and believe the badge must not be tarnished. They believe in the law, and do their jobs even when they find the law disagreeable. Sounds like a blind servant of 'the man?' Maybe, but it's what we hire them for, to do their jobs. If you don't like it you can stop paying your taxes and tell the IRS to go to hell. But, you'll probably get a visit from a cop or a federal agent, who may sympathize with your position, but will still arrest you. Because that's what they're hired to do.
What happens if a law passes that says you can't drink alcohol or smoke a cig, would go along with it and allow you or your family members who drink to be arrested? Would you tell them "The police are just doing their jobs"? Would you tell them to conform?
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"When Saddam flew that plane into those buildings, I knew it was time to kick some Iranian ass!"
-cheer leading, flag waving American
Im sorry but you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, marijuana smoke is just as harmful if not more than cigarette smoke, just because it isn't as mainstream doesn't make it any less harmful. Although I do agree with you that marijuana should be legalised.
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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
- Hunter S. Thompson
While I no longer do either, I'd say that beyond the act of taking smoke of any kind into ones lungs being generically bad, cigarettes pose a much worse threat, as the tobacco is treated with all manner of carcinogens, chemicals, and god knows what else. Generally, pot isn't, or at worst it's dusted with some other drug, be it PCP, meth, whatever.
Second hand tobacco smoke may or may not increase cancer rates in nonsmokers, but I'm pretty sure the worst you'll get from second pot smoke is a contact high, and maybe a case of the munchies.
Edit: Not that I ever tried it, but I've heard you get a much better high from eating THC over smoking it, anyway.
And yes, though I personally dislike the drug, I feel it should be legal.
This has been going on for a long long time, anybody who's smoked pot and had a run in with the law knows there are 3 types of cops. The first will flat out arrest you, the second will give you a break but take your pot and dump it out in front of you, the third claims to give you a break and sticks the bag in his own pocket. They do so because they know no one will report them, to do so is to incriminate yourself, plus cops are notorious for sticking up for each other, one would just lie and claim the other dumped it after.
Myself, I trust very very few cops, there's a few old school cops who are cool, they do their job and don't try to be jerks about it, but most just flat out suck, they give all cops a bad name. A lot of the cops, it seems, were the ones who got into the most trouble when they were younger, they were bullies as brats and they grew up to be bullies with badges. I've seen cops break just about every law under the sun and get away with it.
Back in the 70's we had a group of off duty cops beat a kid to death, he'd been a busboy where they went to eat and most people suspect he may have overheard something. Eventually the cops were caught and tried, their big sentence was weekends in a minimum security prison, complete with tennis courts.
Cops here are also cowards, if you have a gang of kids attack you and the cops come by the cops will arrest you on the word of that gang rather than confront them, simply claiming that because there's more of them they aren't the liars, you are.
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In a lot of ways, because of the position that they are in, police should receive harsher punishments for breaking the law rather than more lenient ones, as often seems to be the case. Those entrusted with enforcing the laws can not and must not be above those laws, or it just makes a mockery of those laws.
Of course then we're faced with a "who guards the guards" situation. No doubt, if there was a police force, who's job it is to police the police, in this situation, they'd probably have just slapped him on the wrist, and taken the drugs as "evidence" .
Don't be terrorized! You're more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder! More people die every year from prescription drugs than terrorism LOL!
BAD COP NO DONUT!!!!!