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Police are a lot like politicians - power hungry thugs who will try to get away with as much as they can. How is it these thugs are allowed to get away with violating our civil rights with such regularity and impunity? How does this happen in a democratic society? Civilian review boards should be MANDATORY to remind these thugs they work for US; we don't work for them. We pay their salary. They are OUR employees.
It's well known that certain drug trafficking highway corridors are gold mines for the government. They are focused on the traffic that is coming in the direction with the money, not the traffic that is heading in the other direction with the drugs.
I had something similar happen to me years ago; will not go into details, but basically the police illegally searched a house I was visiting, and illegally confiscated items in the house that took months to get back.
Edit; I will not give details due to privacy and overall sensitivity of the whole affair to others who still reside in the area; No charges were ever filed for anything as we did not do anything wrong, but actually called the cops on the people who were doing wrong.
Oh, and for those people who were doing wrong? The police never even bothered to follow up, they simply went next door to ask what was happening, the person basically said "nothing" (I am guessing because the cops were over there for all of one minute), then the cops attention turned on us.
"The very authorities taking the property appear to be profiting from it, according to Pennsylvania state records. The Pennsylvania Attorney General's office says about $7 million went straight to the salaries for the Philadelphia District Attorney's office and the police department in just three years. In that same time period, records show the D.A.'s office spent no money on community-based drug and crime-fighting programs, according to the Philadelphia AG's office."
The money they stole went straight to their pocket.
For other government workers who are not the police and district attorneys, they too can steal by raising taxes, fee, etc.
for those of us that dont fear death and have nothing to lose the answer would be to use a gun against corrupt cops. however im law abiding and not convinced the problem is as widespread as the media suggests. i have never gotten so much as a ticket... but if there is corruption going on in a city near you its up to you to put up with it or not if the feds arent cracking down on corrupt local leo....
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