And you are so outraged that you'll make a false accusation against an innocent third party.
How the System works: Drug cops search a "confidental informant" and find certain substances. It looks bad but the search can go away if he gives them a bigger fish. He gives them an address, doesn't matter what it is. When it turns out to be a bust, they want words with him. By this time he's managed to gather some good info, which he supplies, apolgising for the inaccurate previous.
Everybody gets what they want, and where's the harm?
The war on drugs has become another business and crony farce that has made many people rich including every aspect of our so-called justice system from the private prisons to government employees that are supposed to protect and serve. We can’t afford it anymore. One reason is that liberty and the rights of the majority are much more important that having cops break down doors of innocent citizens based upon some lying opportunist low life confessions.
There needs to be another strategy than this costly “war” than adding more cops, more weaponry and longer $40K per year sentences that make corporations that run the private prisons rich.
Why do you assume I would make "false" accusations. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor, is etched in my heart. Also why do you assume that the people in the story didn't hide a fugitive and that the report against them was not fabricated. They could of as easily of been people lying as well as not. They were well within their rights to not consent to a search, but later on claiming they knew not the person wanted is just speculation on all parties here.
I have personally seen the destruction of drugs (meth) on families here. I have seen where they cook it in the house with small children and have it explode and burn the house down (fortunately the kids lived). I have seen the firsthand the traffic such houses bring in. I have had items stole off my carports when a renter house neighbor (w/ kids) were dealing drugs. I have went out in the yard with a gun to tell these creatures not to cut across my yard and stare in the windows at my wife and children. These are drugs that no amount of libertarian pressure would get legalized. These are drugs that ruin lives with one taste of their poison.
Damn right I will fight it in my neck of the woods. This is my neighborhood and I claim it for my children's future too.