One day he led the charge and got shot ~ put him right out of the detective business fur shur.
The location had been raided numerous times before ~ which meant SOMEBODY ~ e.g. the landlord ~ had an idea who he was doing business with.
The police union sued the landlord under a variety of laws. They eventually won (well over a decade later).
The DC government and DOJ didn't lift a finger.
What I gather from this article is that DOJ has finally figured out that the landlords do know ~
Well, my goodness, by all means let’s apply this standard to public housing, then.
How many drug deals have occurred in your average project?
Seems to me there’s some issue with equal protection under the law going on, here.
Governments from the federal level on down to the tiniest municipality have become ravening black holes as far as money is concerned due to their own profligacy.
Do you really want to allow them an incentive to just seize private property under whatever pretext they can dream up to disguise their profit motive?
You really do live in a Postal Service DC bubble if so.
Sure, and for the sake of such a “haven” they’d go to all the bother of renting several orders of magnitudes more rooms than ever were involved with drug deals? And deals that weren’t so much like huge million dollar heroin stashes, but rather like penny ante marijuana affairs?
I think you lost your head in a mailbox somewhere along the line.
Oh. Then you support asset seizure by the government? Care to justify your position?
“What I gather from this article is that DOJ has finally figured out that the landlords do know “
Indeed? What *I* gather is that the law enforcement community wants to delegate its duties to the rest of us — at gun point.
Anyone who still says the Pledge of Allegiance is a fool.
“What I gather from this article is that DOJ has finally figured out that the landlords do know ~”
So, are you implying that the motel owner was in on the drug dealing, or that he somehow *should* have known what someone renting a room for a night or two was doing behind closed doors?
Should he have played the statistics an refused to rent rooms to those most likely to be drug dealers - young blacks and hispanics ?