Posted on 12/22/2006 9:02:20 AM PST by mfnorman
(AP) A one-time Texas drug agent described by his former boss as perhaps the best narcotics officer in the country plans to market a how-to video on concealing drugs and fooling police.
Barry Cooper, who has worked for small police departments in East Texas, plans to launch a Web site next week where he will sell his video, "Never Get Busted Again," the Tyler Morning Telegraph reported in its online edition Thursday.
A promotional video says Cooper will show viewers how to "conceal their stash," "avoid narcotics profiling" and "fool canines every time."
Cooper, who said he favors the legalization of marijuana, made the video in part because he believes the nation's fight against drugs is a waste of resources. Busting marijuana users fills up prisons with nonviolent offenders, he said.
"My main motivation in all of this is to teach Americans their civil liberties and what drives me in this is injustice and unfairness in our system," Cooper told the newspaper.
Cooper said his Web site should be operating by Tuesday.
As a drug officer, Cooper said, he made more than 800 drug arrests and seized more than 50 vehicles and $500,000 in cash and assets.
"He was even better than he says he was," said Tom Finley, Cooper's former boss on a West Texas drug task force and now a private investigator in Midland. "He was probably the best narcotics officer in the state and maybe the country during his time with the task force."
News of the video has angered authorities, including Richard Sanders, an agent with the Tyler Drug Enforcement Agency. Sanders said he plans to investigate whether the video violates any laws.
"It outrages me personally as I'm sure it does any officer that has sworn an oath to uphold the laws of this state, and nation," Sanders said. "It is clear that his whole deal is to make money and he has found some sort of scheme, but for him to go to the dark side and do this is infuriating."
Smith County Deputy Constable Mark Waters, a narcotics officer, said the video is insulting to law enforcement officials.
"This is a slap in the face to all that we do to uphold the laws and keep the public safe," he said.
Who cares, the war on drugs is stupid anyway.
Insuring that drug dealers can continue to poison our children... what an a-hole.
Drugs ruin lives, destroy families, kill innocents, and scar children who grow up in that atmosphere. There is a war going on... whether you think it should be fought is another story.
This guy seems to be a bit of a hypocritical, sociopathic whore, but I think I like him for some reason.
Of course, police will buy it, too, just to know where to look!
What a HOOT!
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Could have been this year's Tickle Me Elmo or Cabbage Patch toy.
So does alcohol.
I'm with you on this. The other day there was a story about a man who strangled his mother using a strand of Christmas lights. Their fight was over money he wanted for cocaine. I fail to see how the legalization of drugs would make this kind of thing vanish.
This sounds like a great idea as long as he sends a copy to cops around the country.
That's an average of $625 per bust. This guy was no super-cop.
Nor would legalization improve the driving skills of the crackhead in the next lane.
I don't suppose it occurs to anyone who follows his advice, that the cops can also read his web-site and know how you might be hiding stuff?
The War on Some Drugs is a slap in the face to the Constitution.
In my yoot there was a book "A Child's Garden of Grass" that had a chapter on how to hide your stash. The last line of that chapter was, paraphrased. "don't use any of the suggested hiding places in this chapter."
This guys video will probably work the same way.
Does "this kind of thing" tend to happen over legal drugs?
I'd think sociopaths would make great narcs, particularly for undercover work.
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