2011/1/19 John Sessoms <[email protected]>: > > Actually, the cops can "arrest" you just about anywhere in the world (not > just in the U.S.) simply because you look "funny".
true. and detain me for 24 hours before they have to convince a DA that they have a case. I'm OK with that. Just not with their ludicrous notions of their own rights and powers. > Whether they can make the charges stick is another matter. > > This case appears to be still in litigation. At least the civil case against > the police and the local government is still in litigation. If I understood > the article, the accused was acquitted of all charges. right. however, afaik there are similar cases were people were sentenced or at least incriminating evidence of police misconduct was suppressed. I'll try and find them for you. > Although, I don't have a warm and fuzzy feeling for where this incident was > supposed to have occurred. You got a tech blog of no fixed abode, reporting > on a story that appeared in a California based "news reporting service for > lawyers" (aka Blog) on an incident that occurred where? Possibly in Texas? no idea. as you know over 100% of the information on the internet is true. Out of the 280% there is... > We go through this shit periodically with the cops coming up with some > clever new ruse for running roughshod over the rights of the accused, but > when it eventually works its way through the courts, the courts tell them > whatever new stupidity they've come up with is unconstitutional, and force > the overturn of all the convictions that have come out of their latest > idiocy, if any. yeah and that is what upsets me most. those are the same cops who park second row in rush hour traffic to buy or even have lunch but pull me over and hassle me for forgetting to turn off my fog lamps. the very same cops who use their blue lights just so they can all run a red light together in their convoy when there is no emergency whatsoever and no benefit to be derived from the convoy arriving all at once to beat up the next batch of demonstrators or blind them with water jets (just happened here recently). someone has to make them understand that they are neither /the law/ nor /above it/. > Often the local government ends up getting sued (as is apparently happening > in this case) and has to pay compensation to everyone who's been victimized > by the police bullshit. > > You'd think some smart DA would look at the track record for this kind of > idiocy and tell the local gendarmerie to back off BEFORE they waste the > local taxpayer's money again. But they don't. > > Apparently restraining police stupidity BEFORE it costs the city a bunch of > money is considered to be "soft on crime." oh yeah it is, too. police crime. sorry to any good cop out there; I help police where I can but too much happens that is completely inexcusable. Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
