And then there is another routine traffic stop .

Some 2+2er and his BR?

Policing for profit, now endorsed unabashedly by your local news outlet. Responsible journalism at its finest.

"The Washington Post brings us a look at the preliminary findings of a sweeping federal review into thousands of old criminal cases in which FBI forensic experts may have overstated their scientific testimony to help secure a conviction. The early takeaway is difficult to ignore: Exaggerated testimony may have played a role in landing at least 27 people on death row."

Oops.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate..._may_have.html

Edit: I lol at all these people saying GZ was overcharged or never should have gone to trial. There are 100 worse injustices every day for defendants.

LOL so the fact that other people are screwed more means that zimmerman should be screwed. Sick thought process.

Christ how did we get with a justice system run by lawyers. No wonder it is so utterly corrupt. At least "Better Call Saul" had internally consistent ethics.

Actually, the justice system is run by money and taxpayers aren't willing to foot the bill that would be required for fairness. Trying a real case, like Zimmerman, etc. requires a lot of time and effort by many highly trained people. Like two+ people with 7+ years of college, 15+ years combined experience, and assorted experts and support staff. Last time I took my car into the local shop it was $115/hr for labor, so you can do the math. A serious defense/trial prep for three+ months can easily hit a million.

The easiest way to fix things is to decriminalize most drugs, which would limit unjust incarcerations and free up resources to ensure a bit more thought goes into the process. That structural solution would solve many individual problems much worse than poor GZ, who (remember) killed an unarmed guy after following him.

I, for one, am shocked, shocked that the author of a foxnews.com article misread a Supreme Court opinion.

In City of Indianapolis v. Edmond, the Court never said "actual drug checkpoints are not legal and that police can randomly stop cars for just two reasons: to prevent immigrants without legal permission to be in the U.S. and contraband from entering the country and to get drunk drivers off the road..."

The issue is whether the checkpoint is merely a cover for general crime control purposes. To wit:

But the Court leaves the door open to drug stop programs:

The cops may seem a little harsh here, but once you hear what the woman is accused of doing it makes more sense.

At least put it in spoilers so I don't actually have to watch the 15 min vid.....

It's less than a minute in

That's federal property, tho. Might as well be blowing up the Pentagon. I look forward to the upcoming terrorist charges and Gitmo.

I thought maybe he was going to pee on her put they would turn the dash cam off for that. They ratted on the kids so I hope there complaint or it could be a nasty head first take down, most police departments practice on dwarves to get them conditioned to beat 4 year olds. But being serious nothing like a cavity search and take down before we figure out whats going on, for there safety ofc.

Were they expecting to find the rocks up in the cavity or something? More like sexual assault to establish your dominance. Even more disgusting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi4I...layer_embedded

Wow

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...adly-car-chase

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/articl...mp-4688820.php

Evidently the guy had to move to get away from the angry mob and wants to get paid for it.

What a warped view of reality that douche has where he is somehow the victim here.

He was just following orders

SWAT team raids a NO-KILL ANIMAL SHELTER because they might not have had a proper permit for holding a baby deer (the agents ended up euthanizing the deer, which was rehabilitated and about to be moved to a wildlife refuge).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3691317.html

Yeah, I read that earlier today. They sent in a 13 person SWAT team to take the deer so that it could be euthanized.

The owners of the shelter had made arrangements to move the deer to a properly licensed facility the next day.

Oh, and to top it all off, one of the shelter's employees attempted to record the raid on her cel phone, only to have a member of the SWAT team grab it from her and delete the footage.

I will sleep better tonight knowing that those brave government agents took out that dangerous deer. Ah, the sweet, sweet safety.

When you have a hammer, all the world's a nail. New book, lotta good reviews.

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces

But if my local neighborhood policeman doesn't have an assault rifle, body armor, and armored vehicle the terrorists might get me.

The use and abuse of civil forfeiture

http://m.newyorker.com/reporting/201...urrentPage=all