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Originally posted by justinsweatt
Former West Texas Drug Officer Barry Cooper has a great DVD series called "Never Get Busted Again" that you can purchase at Amazon.
The reason I post this here is that he shared several personal stories where he had witnessed cops planting drugs, training drug dogs to give false positives, and he even mentioned that a few those cops probably "lost" some of the drug money seized. It's a very interesting DVD and I found it to be very educational.
Right now in Austin, we are faced with a Chief of Police that cares little for Constitutional rights and a growing police force that is filled with former military personel. It's getting pretty frightening. Austin used to be a pretty mellow place but it seems that that phenomenon is changing.
Originally posted by rcwj1975
I will agree that the K9 bite was NOT necessary and they should be held accountable for that. As for the aggressivness of the the officers, you may wanna check the history of the suspect before making a clear judgment. Reason being, you don't play patty cackes with a man who has a criminal history of: Burglary, Drug Possession, Domestic Abuse, and Fleeing. Now for the "planting" of the drugs. Yes there was an allegation, BUT you failed MISERABLY to doing alittle research to find out that the officer in question was reaching into his pocket to make sure the camera and audio were still on. Also, (go figure), the youtube video IS NOT complete and doesn't show the confession by Carlos that he DID have weed on him. In his own words, CAUGHT ON TAPE, he says "yeah so what, you found my weed". Not to mention he pled GUILTY to the possession charge in court and admitted to the DA no one planted anything. Just another case of people having NO CLUE and ASSuming stuff, and before researching it, they go purely on emotion or biased hate to make people look MUCH worse then what they really are. Again, you wanna complain about the use of the K9, I can agree and will complain about that too, as there was no reason. As for the "planting" and believing this video with blinders on....well thats par for the course here on ATS when it comes to police anything. Edit to Add: The lawsuit is still pending for the K9 bite and rightfully so, but the officer was cleared, thanks to the suspect being honest (a week later), and is back to work.
[edit on 2/16/2010 by rcwj1975]
Originally posted by downtown436
If you don't like the police, then you should be executed as well.
Originally posted by ImaginaryReality1984
reply to post by December_Rain
Well that is blatant planting of evidence. The fact he looks into the camera just before reaching into his pocket and then the delighted, self satisfied tone as he "finds" the drugs is just disgusting.
I wonder if they would have done this to a white person.
Originally posted by romanmel
You have demeaned the intelligence of those who have posted in this thread with a view counter to your own, as being stupid or otherwise not very smart. Why?
Can't you just argue the case with facts? Guess not.
You might be interested to know that on the subject of intellgence, some police departments only want lower IQ applicants. They actually have limits on high IQ's for cops and reject those of higher intellegence. See NY Times article below:
www.nytimes.com...
Originally posted by colt122
At least when there cops you know were they are
Police should be executed when they cross the line, its the only way to uphold true justice, the police officers should be held accountable to the Government and the people , after all.... they get there "special"privileges, it should be the price you pay if you want to look down at people.
Originally posted by colt122
At least when there cops you know were they are
Police should be executed when they cross the line, its the only way to uphold true justice, the police officers should be held accountable to the Government and the people , after all.... they get there "special"privileges, it should be the price you pay if you want to look down at people.