Posted on 01/26/2018 4:38:31 AM PST by JP1201
If you're lucky enough to be friends with a cop, they may give you one of their get out of jail cards, which you can flash to other cops along with a request for favorable treatment.
But the favoritism that cops afford to one another's friends are nothing compared to the favoritism they give each other. Thanks to the sweetheart deals cut by police "unions," cops who are accused of crimes get all kinds of benefits, ranging from the right to choose who may interrogate them to a guarantee that they can see all the evidence against them before answering questions, to the right to know the names of anyone who gave evidence against them before question.
Cops get to call a time-out on any questioning, pausing the investigations against them for 5 days in Virginia and 30 days in Louisiana. They get to purge their records of any accusations of wrongdoing, and they can't be threatened or enticed with plea bargain deals by investigators.
No perp gets these privileges: if you demanded that cops treat garden-variety suspects this way, they'd crucify you with claims that this would allow criminals to get away clean and reoffend.... Perhaps that's why, when cops are dirty enough to finally, finally face justice, they always turn out to be repeat offenders?
In 50 cities and 13 states, for example, union contracts “restrict interrogations by limiting how long an officer can be interrogated, who can interrogate them, the types of questions that can be asked, and when an interrogation can take place.” In Virginia police officers have a right to at least a five-day delay before being interrogated. In Louisiana police officers have up to 30 days during which no questioning is allowed and they cannot be questioned for sustained periods of time or without breaks. In some cities, police officers can only be interrogated during work hours. Regular people do not get these privileges.
The key to a good interrogation is that the suspect doesn’t know what the interrogator knows so the suspect can be caught in a lie which unravels their story. Thus, the Florida Police Bill of Rights is stunning in what it allows police officers:
The law enforcement officer or correctional officer under investigation must be informed of the nature of the investigation before any interrogation begins, and he or she must be informed of the names of all complainants. All identifiable witnesses shall be interviewed, whenever possible, prior to the beginning of the investigative interview of the accused officer. The complaint, all witness statements, including all other existing subject officer statements, and all other existing evidence, including, but not limited to, incident reports, GPS locator information, and audio or video recordings relating to the incident under investigation, must be provided to each officer who is the subject of the complaint before the beginning of any investigative interview of that officer.
You seem to be on a anti-cop/legal system roll. By design or just “luck of the draw for the blog?
Equal treatment under the law, lol.
It seems like the FBI has “don’t even suggest wrongdoing” in their contracts.
Lived on Cape Cod when the speed limit was still 55mph. Had a blue and white “55” sticker on the rear bumper. Got stopped one night half in the bag... Brewster cop said he was going to ticket but saw I was “with us”. No tickee... Close one.
I just heard about a ticketee getting a card from a cop because the judge told him to give it up.
Of course the system spends an inordinate amount of time making sure it’s own are protected. This is always the way of things in a “legal system”, which is what we have. “Justice” has little to nothing to do with any part of it. You pretty much have to wait until you’re dead to get any justice in this world.
Yep.
If you don’t have one, get two of blue lives matter flag magnets from Amazon or eBay and stick it next to your license plate / rear bumper.
I got zero speeding tickets ever since.
You seem to be on a anti-cop/legal system roll. By design or just “luck of the draw for the blog?
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She also posts from Reason, so most likely a Libertarian who hates cops, loves pot, and believes there is nothing better than selfishness.
the cop was allowed to go on vacation before he was even questioned...
Shiny badges do not confer special rights!
That is not anti-cop.
It is pro-citizen.
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You seem to be on a anti-cop/legal system roll. By design or just “luck of the draw for the blog?
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Considering the ‘law ENFORCEMENT officer’ no longer works FOR We the People, but for the govt whom signs their paychecks and bends over during EVERY ‘negotiation’, I fail to see why many here would bother to disagree.
Just reading the ‘FL Police Bill of Rights’, and KNOWING it exists, should chap the hide of *EVERY* Citizen.
Deny us our Rights and hide behind the well established ‘no obligation’ rulings, IF you *allowed* to sue ‘em to begin...
We’ve all seen the ‘blow through the light w/ the lights, then off again’, Office lead-foot (but will pull YOUR ass over in a heartbeat), no-knock raids w/ public fatalities, ‘scared’ officers shooting civilians, riddling cars/homes w/ bullets and STILL couldn’t hit anything.
Think THEY would balk if/when govt says, “Round up the guns”??
No, FRiend, the police are no longer OUR ‘friend’; and it’s just getting worse each and every year.
back in te early 70’s i drove for a outfit and they gave me a biz card with a black hand on it,that was all that was on it get stopped in nj.or ny hand the card with your license and it was all over.and go on.
Thanks for the info
Perhaps - depends on whether there’s a deeper agenda - what sounds like one can just as easily be the other. When the posts seem to be serially about the same topic, one wonders if there is something deeper involved in the process and I have no idea who the poster really is.
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