Why don’t they arrest these people when the buy is being done?
With all the states at least legalizing medical marijuana why bother for someone who is small time seller?
Especially if the result is a loss of a police officer life?
It is just not worth the price.
And it goes all the way to the top.
It's the real reason why the 'Ratz don't want the wall.
That’s where “civil forfeiture” comes in. The victim probably had something they wanted to steal.
Evidently someone isn't capable of doing a cost/benefit analysis. That's the person who should be charged with a crime.
Because it has nothing to do with a $20 and $40 dollar buy of Mary Jane or supposed straw sales of guns.
The DA is at this point just making stuff up to justify their no-knock raid.
There are so many laws on the books and many being very technical (gun laws) that they can almost always find something to charge you with after the fact.
They just love their dramatic no-knock/SWAT raids until one of their own gets hurt or killed.
It's so important that all the officers stay safe and get to go home at the end of the day. If you have to shoot one of the civilians* to accomplish that...well that's just too bad for him.
*(Note the word civilian above. That's what they call us. Not citizen...civilian, someone beneath them and all their privileges.
I'm not knocking all cops. There are plenty of good ones around but in the Democrat controlled cities they can be few and far between. The fish rots from the head down.)
You get all the adrenaline of war and still get to go home at night. You get to dress like Seal Team but not have to measure up like Seal Team. You know, you want the power of war without the full risks and challenges of war.
My father actually landed at Normandy and fought across Europe. As a police officer he became horrified in his later years as to how law enforcement began to see their own communities. In later years, Vets who joined the force didn't have the same perspective that he did as to what becoming a military in your own town did to the community. He saw it first hand in Europe and rejected it.
Why don’t they arrest these people when the buy is being done?
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I agree.
They probably wont do it on the first buy, because they are still building the case. But run one again.
My problem with no-knock raids is that a home owner has to trust that it’s really the police, and not a home invasion where someone is yelling police.
In this case, we have a suspected drug dealer in a suburban/urban residence, not a guy and his kid in a cabin in Idaho, so it’s pretty obvious that he didn’t have a reasonable position not to believe that it’s really the police busting his door down.
I still think there have to be better ways to take down a perp
The entire sad episode was predicated on hearsay. The cops were not around when the guy sold tiny amounts of weed. Someone told them “the guy sold pot, he has a gun.’ So the only solution was a no knock raid. Duh!