OK, FRiend, what is your opinion of this case — professional police work or intimidating overkill? (Imagine this was your wife or daughter...)
BCS with out arrest is I think very very wrong.
If its that probable arrest and take facility do NOT do this in the field.
>>OK, FRiend, what is your opinion of this case — professional police work or intimidating overkill?<<
You didn’t ask but I think the cops went a bit beyond the line (but not as far as the suspects would have us believe).
But every time the cops go over the line, we lose a bit more of the remnants of the 4th Amendment.
Yes, let me imagine one of my three daughters smoking weed in the car while driving with their aunt (my sister?). Hmmm. Then, let me imagine them speeding down the road, high as a kite. Hmmmm. Then let me imagine that they get stopped for speeding and the stench of Mary Jane comes out of the window when they are confronted by the trooper. Hmmmmm. Then let me imagine that the trooper not only smells dope, but sees a smoked blunt on the floor. Hmmmmmm. Then, when the trooper asks them to step out of the car, the zipper of their shorts is open. Hmmmmmmmm. Now let me imagine that the trooper calls a woman officer to check them over for hidden drugs and reaches into their lady-areas. Hmmmmmmmmm.
Well, if this really happened, then I would tell them DON'T DO DRUGS, KNUCKLEHEADS!!!!! This is what criminals get. And, the time in jail is going to be a lot worse, with a lot deeper cavity searches than this. Stay out of trouble. The reason this would be imaginary is that I made it clear to my girls that the cops would be a lot kinder than I would, if they did this. Now they tell me this was very good for them.
The permissive, self-absorbed, antinomian mentality of the world right now engenders this kind of brash law-breaking you see in these women. There is no fear before their eyes. The "pain" they feel is all in their pride. In case no one noticed, these women are criminals. Weed is illegal. Sorry, once again, I am on the side of the troopers.
What say you?