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UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Aug 02 2009 01:50 am

Hacker wrote:

I wish that police were more likely to get fired than other jobs. Like taking 3 strikes and making it one.

Shock and awe time...it is much easier to lose your job as a police officer than nearly any other job. If you screw up once, you're probably gone.

I've worked with a lot of bitter ex-cops.

Posted: Aug 13 2009 04:11 pm

since this is mostly a legal thread now, here is a guy in a catch-22, so to speak:

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Reporting from Las Vegas - Walt Staton wanted to help people, and his tool was a water jug. On the morning of Dec. 4, he and three others drove southwest from Tucson, to the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, which tens of thousands of illegal immigrants traverse each year.

But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the plastic jugs he left for the immigrants endanger wildlife, and this week Staton was sentenced in federal court in Tucson on a charge of littering. He was given one year of unsupervised probation and ordered to spend 300 hours picking up trash.

The sentence, however, does not quite capture the emotions surrounding the case -- yet another testament to the volatility of the illegal immigration debate in Arizona. Prosecutors had asked for a $5,000 fine and five years' probation. Staton, for his part, had insisted on a trial, rather than pay a $175 fine.

In recent months, as the legal proceedings progressed, each side has essentially accused the other of staging a show trial to bolster its view of U.S. border policy.

Staton, a 27-year-old Web designer and soup kitchen volunteer, viewed his actions as humanitarian. As he had done for five years with the faith-based aid group No More Deaths, Staton in December lugged water up hills and through scrub to remote, migrant-carved trails. Only this time, when he and his comrades returned from leaving eight jugs at their last stop, authorities were waiting, and he was cited by a Fish and Wildlife Service officer.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-water-immigrants13-2009aug13,0,4654306.story

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Meanwhile, storing nuclear waste and the run-off from coal cleaning in unsafe conditions will probably never be prosecuted.

Posted: Aug 18 2009 01:50 pm

this cop is a dumbass. plain and simple.

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Donald May spent three months in jail because a central Florida cop thought the breath mints in his mouth were crack cocaine.

The Kissimmee cop even claims he field tested the mints, which proved the mints were crack.

The cop also claimed he saw May buy the drugs and even went as far as claiming that May admitted to buying the drugs.

However, May was pulled over for an expired tag, not for purchasing drugs.

Unable to bond out of jail, May ended up losing his job, apartment and car during the three months he was incarcerated.

It wasn’t until further testing proved the mints to be mints that he was released.

May is now suing, according to the article.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/20435114/detail.html
http://current.com/1pd9m4c

Posted: Sep 22 2009 02:01 pm

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Police use secret GPS devices, Judge OK'd

For the first time, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday that the state constitution allows police to break into a suspect’s car to secretly install tracking devices using a global positioning system, provided that authorities have a warrant before they do so.

In a unanimous ruling written by Justice Judith Cowin, the state’s highest court upheld the drug trafficking conviction of Everett H. Connolly, a Cape Cod man who was tracked by State Police in 2004 after they installed a GPS device in his minivan.

The court said that using GPS devices as an investigative tool, which can require police to secretly break into a vehicle to install the device, does not violate the ban on unreasonable search and seizure in the state’s Declaration of Rights.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/18/sjc_oks_secret_use_of_gps_devices/

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Sep 22 2009 05:18 pm

...so what? They have a warrant. Police have the right to do what they need to execute it.

Did you know they can also break into your house to install a wiretap?

Posted: Sep 22 2009 07:14 pm

Given that this topic has shifted into discussion more about the law overstepping civil liberties/fear of Big Brother, maybe the title could be changed accordingly?

Posted: Oct 07 2009 03:55 pm

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DOLTON, Ill. (CBS) ― A 15-year-old student was walking down a hallway at school when he says a police officer grabbed him and threw him to the ground. But that's not all. The teenager says he was beaten and nearly suffocated. He told his story to CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini.

Security cameras captured the beating of a 15-year-old Special Education student by a police officer. Marshawn Pitts says the officer started shouting and swearing at him because his shirt wasn't tucked in.

http://www.wbbm780.com/Camera-catches-cop-beating-special-needs-student/5383886

Posted: Oct 07 2009 03:57 pm

ok seriously, you guys should've informed me about this thread , then i would've simply posted all my material in here.

^^^ Thats seriously fugged up.