Bad boys, bad boys...watcha gonna do?

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(05-02-2017, 06:11 PM)Matt_Crimson Wrote: My problem with that line of thinking is that the convictions are based on made up evidence. That is a serious problem.

We can all sit here and say "They were probably guilty" but guilty of what exactly? Murder? Or an accessory to it? Thats the problem cops create by planting evidence. Although  the criminals may be going to prison they're not actually going to prison for what they ACTUALLY did. 

All crimes are not the same. Someone could be selling small amounts of marijuana and the cops can plant two barrels of cocaine in their house and send them to prison for the rest of their life based on something they weren't actually selling nor in the possession of. People "probably" being guilty should not be justification for planting evidence. This leads to people being convicted of crimes they werent really commitng even if they were commiting some. Sure, we can argue that they should go to jaiil when it seems "obvious" that theyre doing something wrong, but what are they being convicted of and is the punishment for that conviction fair punishment for what they actually did?

We just had a District Justice speak at a banquet last night.  He gave a good accounting for how all the drug arrests in our area are simply the low end dealers.  The main distributors stay well away and use their mules to push their product.

That aside ANY time the police (who have the ability to take away your freedoms) are dirty or shady it needs pointed out, handled and corrected.