Posted on 10/11/2017 4:29:03 PM PDT by Twotone
The war on cops is moving from the streets to the U.S. Supreme Court. Last week, the Justices heard a case that threatens police officers with financial ruin if they make arrests and the charges later get dropped.
It started with a late night bash. District of Columbia police officers were called by neighbors at 1 a.m. to investigate a rowdy party at an unoccupied row house. The police found 21 partygoers, liquor, trash, and used condoms strewn about, the smell of marijuana, and women with cash stuffed in their thongs. The partygoers scattered, hiding in closets.
When questioned, some told police “Peaches had invited them.” Some gave other stories. The police phoned “Peaches,” who admitted not having the owner’s permission to use the house. The police then called the owner, who confirmed no one had permission. Two hours after being summoned, the police made the decision to arrest the partygoers for trespassing — the judgment call at issue in this case.
The charges were later dropped, because it wasn’t clear beyond a reasonable doubt the partygoers knew they were trespassing. But sixteen turned around and sued the police for false arrest and violating their constitutional rights.
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Unionized government employees with great salaries and benefits are not above the law, including those who are “law enforcement”.
Creating classes of people that are ‘better than us’ sounds like Orwell’s “Animal Farm” where some were ‘more equal than others’. Its sort of “Marxist-Leninist”.
Politicians love law enforcement union endorsements at election time, but those politicians need to reform government employee pensions especially the most extravagant ones given to law enforcement and firefighter unions (common called “first responders”).
There’s no more money to suck out of people’s pockets at the federal, state and local levels as spending continues out of control and debt continues to grow.
I have a college frat mate in L.A. who in the past year was caught driving without any insurance nor registered. TWICE. They just ran his drivers license and let him go.
Break the social contract, neuter police, and here comes militias to take its place. White flight goes from suburbs to.....small towns in the sticks.
The cost of government employees is trivial when compared to the overall government. It is the double and triple dippers which are unjustly enriched.
Please tell me this is a satire.
Wasn’t Breyer born in the Middle Ages?/s
Since when does it matter if a person knows they are breaking the law or not?
Is this Hillary and her staff? I must have missed that part.
Each person should have been released on bail, and then responsible for paying their share of the repairs or cost of damage/cleaning expenses.
The property owner should not have been left with the bill.
“I have a college frat mate in L.A. who in the past year was caught driving without any insurance nor registered. TWICE. They just ran his drivers license and let him go.”
That’s because thanks to our Mexican RAT-led Legislature, those acts are no longer misdemeanors, but rather “Infractions,” and under the “new law,” they MUST be covered by a citation and release.
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Hiding or running is precisely what a guilty mind does.
They knew the party wasn’t permitted by the owner.
I still recall that story of the California corrections officer who was earning his second pension at the California multiple of 3 percent times years of service after being in the Highway Patrol to get his first pension.
Neuter the cops and the People will have to uphold the law - before cops, the regular people didn’t have all them pesky constraints about keeping a perp in good shape....
That is nothing. It is not unusual in Illinois for a person to work for Chicago retire get his pension. Then go to work for the county retire get that pension. Then go to work for the state retire and collect the state pension. Their total income can easily exceed $100,000.
Almost all those triple dippers are Democrats connected to the Machine. Part of the requirement for all these jobs is that the TDs work the precincts when required. Many are “ghost pay-rollers” and no show jobs.
It goes without saying that the State is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Not likely. The actual trend is growth of the big city areas as people leave the rural areas because of the lack of financial opportunity. Small towns could not take many more and offer very limited opportunity particularly in the type of jobs offered.
Had I stayed in the little town I was raised in my chances of finding a job paying more than I would demand. My education would have been limited as well.
I saw the potential of start ups in small towns due to technology and lower labor costs. Significantly so. Education is more accessible now. Societal break down will force the issue I think.
The worldwide trends argue to the contrary. Population flight to the cities is what we see. In third world nations it is so great that the infrastructure has been outrun.
Small towns simply cannot go far enough into the Division of Labor because their populations do not need many of the jobs created by the divisions. This often precludes development of new products which need services they cannot yet provide for themselves. As successful concerns develop techniques and simplify production they will move elsewhere where standardized labor and property are cheaper. this occurs on an international basis as well - the Export Cycle.
As to societal breakdown, aside from the killings with firearms which make it easier, the cities are safer than they were in the past. Some areas of some cities then were so violent that even the police wouldn’t go into them after dark.
People simply do not know the real history of this nation.
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