We don't have the full story yet, but he older I get the less I believe anything cops say.
Cops or {insert group here} are still human.
So there are being good ones, bad one and mostly complex ones that do both good and bad.
Generally there is a reason the peson takes a low paying high risk job - often its to do good, sometimes, its not.
"Cops or {insert group here} are still human.
So there are being good ones, bad one and mostly complex ones that do both good and bad. "
Not to mention that they are stuck in an orginization which thinks nothing of kicking in the door of a 92 year old woman and mudering her under these type of circumstances. I don't who to blame IMO in this case yet, but whoever is at fault is a member of the APD.
What did they think they were going to find? An "8-ball" of coke, that could have been replaced within the hour on any corner in any major city?
It's the hallmark of the War on Some Drugs.... heavy, heavy collateral damage is the price being paid with zero forward, and indeed often *reverse* progress.
This is not the only story, someone in one of thes threads linked a page with a collection of news stories about Drug War collateral damage, including a man who was shot to death in beed in front of his young children, because a friend of his, not even him, had been pulled over and a personal-use amount of pot in the car.
The war on drugs is an outrageous, shameful disgrace which spits in the face of everything America stands for. One of the worst things that it does, is basically subvert any and all constitutional rights for the ultimate "end justifies the means" mentality.... They don't want some shlub to be able to smoke as joint sitting on his couch after work, and they are willing to kill to acheive that end. That is insane.
Worst off, it violates the ultimate sanctity.. the sanctity of ones home.. when cops with little or no information can burst into your home at night when you are sleeping and exectute you, and have the brass say "they followed proceedure".
The need to start indicting drug agents and holding them acoutnable.... more importantly they need to lay bare, wide open for everyone to see, what is being done, the damage being caused, the people killed and mained, and that fact that, thought I don't do drugs, I could drive no less than 20 minutes in almost any direction and get anyd rug I want, easily, and with very high purity. I could do THAT alot easier than a 19 year old kid could get a hold of a 6-pack, and so could the 19-year old.
Talk about a quagmire...you can't wage war on an inanimate substance as another poster put it.... the WoD is a war on *people*.... and drug addiciton is a medical problem.. you don't solve a medical problem with law enforcement. (unless youre the Federal Government)
It's also symptomatic of the typical government, especially liberal notion that "It's not that what we're doing is wrong.. we just haven't done ENOUGH OF IT yet... we need mroe money, more guns, so wse can shoot more 92 year old ladies"
End the war on drugs, pull funding from these shining examples of tactical mastery, put a fraction of WoD money into drug rehabilitation, and give the rest back to the taxpayers. You'd be surprised how much better the inner cities would get.