so by a cop saying he thought he smelt weed gives him the right to search.. wow i wonder if he could abuse such a power ... hmmmm...

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Usually Cops cannot search your car. Yet if they have the suspicions that drugs may be in your car they have the right to search your car. Since he "smelled" weed he had the right to search the victim's car.





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-Ign0RanT

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"You are very right. We are all quick to call cops the "bad" guys and judge them as monsters. What we forget is that they have lives and families to. They need to live and provide for their families just like us. Cops are told to act such a way, or rather they are conditioned into believing that their actions are helping society. Instead of blaming the cops we should blame the PTB that made them that way."

So, this excuses them? No one made them become a cop. They could have gotten any number of other jobs.

"Sorry I joined the SS, I was just trying to provide for my family"

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This doesn't excuse them. Sometimes that may be the only job they could have gotten. If you are a soldier you will be trained to kill. If you are a janitor you will be trained to clean. If you are a police officer you will be trained to enforce the law. Yet it is during that training that they are subjected to views that hinder their vision. The training you get is biased for the job in which you train for.

-Ign0RanT

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Thank you Ig. I am very aware of this because it has happened to me. Of course, I had no drugs nor do I smoke, but the officer swore he smelled weed. All in all, I was handcuffed for their safety but shortly released to go my merry way.

BTW, I think the Supreme Court decision leaves the door open to abuse but that is a different thread.

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I see cops just like I do military people. They are doing their jobs with the utmost professionalism. However, I am quick to point out that even within these organizations you have your 10% of bad apples. Unfortunately, these are the 10% you hear about on TV that gives the whole organization a bad name.

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Yes I greatly agree with you. When it comes down to it is the victim's word against the officers which opens plenty of doors for abuse. Any corrupt cop can easily say I smelt "marijuana" on the driver. It's just that if you have an ideology that all cops are crooked and corrupt don't give them an opportunity to harass you.

-Ign0RanT

Based on the experiences of my life, I want cameras rolling when I deal with these people.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Modern "law enforcement" (war on drugs, war on terror, war on liberties) is the very defination of that expression. These people are serving and protecting the wrong elements of our society.

The corruption rate is far higher than a few percent......

I call it the 9mm rule of authority. I didn't find a reason to 'cuff you so out of spite I am keeping your XBOX because I have the 9mm AND the Badge.

Unfortunately our system of law enforcement has turned into a point based reward system.
Just as the recent thread describing Police Chiefs admitting that speeding tickets aren't about safety as we're told, but instead they're essentially an easy source of boosting revenues for the local city government.

Law enforcement officers are now focusing moreso upon trying to keep their jobs by scoring more points (contacts, tickets, arrests) instead of adhering to their oath of law enforcement officers in upholding the supreme law of the land the US Constitution.

Once again, it's all about the money. The root of all evil.

I got rid of my playstation because I figured sooner or later gov would have come down here and tried to take it. It's a dam good thing I wasnt the one driving that car otherwise this news story would have turned out quite differently.

"Cop found naked in florida after leaving his car for a few moment's around no witness's to who did it."

Authorities in florida were stunned at was surposed to be a random stop when the call came in by the police officer in question there was no responce after a hour. One hour later another police dispach arrived only to find the cop handcuffed in the back of his car and the police car stripped of everything of vaule.

After hours of searching the handcuffed officers car no fingerprints were found on the officer or motive. The only thing were being told is the handcuffed officer keep's repeating these words. I wont take it I wont take it.

After the officer was found half naked in the back of the police car his tazer was mounted over his head with what officers are discibing as a booby trap rigged in the event the handcuffed officer would move the tazer would active.

One officer told 13 news we have never seen anything like this before with as rigged as this trap was it would have taken someone hours but he's telling us he was out cold in seconds and the next thing he knew he was naked in the car and told keep your hands off other people's video games you are to repeat I wont take it when they find you.

Why we dont have all the details yet were being told the officer that was found half naked might have been tazed over and over again and that could be the cause of the stutter in his speach.

Local police are telling 13 news anyone with any evidence of who would have done this to this police officer who tried to steal what didnt belong to him to call the crime line.

Thats how the story should have read. Just my 2 cents.

Viva la francia

Falcon

Falcon, didn't you ever see those reality-shows about cops arresting people?

Or some threads on these pages containing video footage from conduct unbecoming a police officer, right down to tazering civilians in their own cars?

That footage is taken by a camera inside the car.. even before they pull you over, they still have you on candid camera.. so if you assaulted the officer, and thought you made a 'clean getaway', you might find the SWAT waiting at your front porch.

This ain't the 50's anymore sonny..

offcourse, those videotapes do not have olfactory recording devices, so the cop could state he smelled pot, cocaine ànd serious alcohol abuse coming from a bus full of nuns, and he'd be the official representative of the state.. guess who'd TPTB would believe?

Could have been worse I guess.. imagine the model of car the victim was driving was a 'popular object' for car thieves in the region..

Whatever happened to 'innocent untill proven guilty' ?
Nowadays people have to prove being innocent after being charged..

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I wonder what his gamertag is.

The irony of this is that the cop is probably sitting there playing Grand Theft Auto from that xbox.

I don't smoke cigarettes anymore. But up until 12 years ago I smoked Marlboro reds. They often smelled like marijuana. Anybody else notice this in the past? Do they still smell that way? Meanwhile, what a buttheaded cop!

So far, the police as a whole have been called pigs, compared to Nazis, and accused of corruption in this thread.

I'm disgusted, sickened really. You people are so quick to hate on authority that you fail to recognize the reality; that like EVERY organization known to man, there are bad apples within the police force.

Men and women of the police force join up for many different reasons, some of them good, some bad. Reminds me of the armed forces, except no one hates on soldiers... They live to serve us after all...

But when the police are mentioned, out fly the "pigs!" and "nazis!". The police take crap from everyone and still manage to keep us relatively safe.

But of course no one thinks of that when they get a speeding ticket...
Bitterness at its finest.

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I think they are just like anyone,there are good cops and bad cops,my brother told me when he worked vice he could make over 150k on the side,but why? risking your job isn't smart,yes they have busted cops for taking drugs as evidence and it disappears,good cops and bad,doubt that will ever change,and yes my brother could differenciate cigarette smoke with pot smoke,but we won't get into that