Don't Go Bust: A turncoat narc offers tips on how to move your weed

The Dallas Observer ^ | 2/1/2007 | Keith Plocek

[ccmay]

He looks like a good cop. He's got the 'stache, the short-cropped hair, the pushed-out chest and the shiny badge. He sounds like a good cop too; drawled and official. He's got a TV reporter's microphone in his face and a brick of marijuana in his hand, and he's answering questions—not in the "I just accidentally Tasered an old lady" kind of way, but with a grin of accomplishment. The total bust was in the neighborhood of 275 pounds.

This is the old Barry Cooper. Top cop. Total prick. He claims more than 300 felony drug arrests during his eight years as an officer in Gladewater, Big Sandy and Odessa, and a former supervisor says he was damn good at his job, even if he doesn't agree with Cooper's latest get-rich idea.

The video cuts to a decade later, a few months ago. "That was me, Barry Cooper," he says, "top narcotics officer." His hair is longer. That 'stache is now a full-on goatee. The top cop has become a dude. "I'm going to show you places that I never found marijuana hidden." He talks with his hands, like a mellowed-out P.T. Barnum. "I'm going to teach you exactly how narcotic-detector dogs are trained, and I'm going to answer that age-old question: Do coffee grounds really work?"

It's quite the pitch: Former drug warrior sees the light, goes to the dark side and makes a video, Never Get Busted Again, with shady tips on how to fool the fuzz. Stoners rejoice. The new beginning of the end of prohibition is near.

"The drug war is a failed policy, and the legal side effects on the families are worse than the drugs," Cooper says. "I was so wrong in the things I did back then. I ruined lives."

[johnmark7]

Money is not the problem. One question is which costs more? The laws against drugs (it's not a war unless you consider every law a war on sin), or not having these as crimes?

Let's look at San Francisco where it is, of course, legal to abuse drugs, alcohol, anything and cover the streets in urine and the parks in human feces, while the scum get paid to maintain their vices by the City. What's the real cost in lives and quality of life.

[Obie Wan]

Who said anything about an overdose on pot? I went back and read my posting and it wasn't in my posting.The article mentions the guy held up a brick of weed but also talked about how to beat narcotic detecting dogs and these dogs can find cocaine and heroin as well as pot so does he show his pals how to beat that too? This guy may be a hero to you but I think he sucks !!!

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Never been. Don't do anything that requires it.