Posted on 06/05/2014 7:42:23 AM PDT by Altariel
How does that Kiwi taste?
Well, no... They used -his- data for the warrant when the guy they were after was the other guy with the same name. If you're making a case for a police state, maybe this sort of thing isn't the right hill to die on. It was a mistake... Maybe a stupid one, but most likely an honest one.
Unless you're making an argument that there should be no police at all, you're going to have to put up with occasional mistakes. And if you ARE arguing for no police at all... Well, we are done here either way.
It was a mistake... Maybe a stupid one, but most likely an honest one.
May the next "mistake" be aimed at you.
Glad my last name is Harkobeeparolin.
What's your alternative? No police? This idea that there can, anywhere, be an organization that makes zero mistakes is a childish fantasy. Some things, when they screw up do a LOT more harm than others. Police among them. It sucks. That's the real world. But seriously... What's your all-knowing alternative? How does your no-police world work? Is there no law at all? Is everybody deputized to enforce the law? What is it like to live in your world?
What's your alternative? No police?
Now, knock down your straw man.
“I’d still sue them for a hell of a lot of money.”
Millions...and if he has a good lawyer, he will win!
“And a juicy payout for anguish.”
Millions...of dollars...(in case anyone does not understand ‘millions’...
It is absolutely important that this kind of grose injustice be made to stop. Millions for this may help to do that.
Yeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh, that no evidence thingy probably should have been a tip off for the police people early on...
All that ensures is that the taxpayers will be punished.
Get rid of qualified immunity, and sue the officers personally.
“All that ensures is that the taxpayers will be punished.
Get rid of qualified immunity, and sue the officers personally.”
All well and good. but if the taxpayers do not feel the ‘hurt’, nothing will change. The qualified immunity will still be there. Get rid of ‘em all...!
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