Police Corruption Thread.
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Speed Trap Towns are Still a Thing btw.
I randomly looked it up after being reminded of hearing about some small Florida town several years back being disincorporated by the Florida State Government for basically functioning as a Speed Trap for town revenue so I was curious if it was still going on.
It apparently is, and across multiple states too!
It's a trap! Small towns across US use traffic tickets to collect big money from drivers.
Aggressive ticket-writing campaigns erode community trust, harm public safety and violate Americans' constitutional rights.
www.usatoday.com
I randomly looked it up after being reminded of hearing about some small Florida town several years back being disincorporated by the Florida State Government for basically functioning as a Speed Trap for town revenue so I was curious if it was still going on.
It apparently is, and across multiple states too!
As an aside..
Before Far Cry 5 was released, I was opining how I wished my California bro character Jason Brody from Far Cry 3, if he elected to leave the Rook Islands after his mass murdering adventures, would return to America and try to adjust to a normal life in America after all he went through... and it was when I heard that Florida story about the Speed Trap town... that I was wishing that when I heard Far Cry 5 was taking place in America, that the plotline would be some dumbass corrupt small town cop pulls over Jason Brody for some bullshit charge and... ???... then hilarity ensues.
Just wreaking pro-liberty, anti-corruption havoc across an entire American county in a vibrant open world setting with at least forty hours of gameplay.
Before Far Cry 5 was released, I was opining how I wished my California bro character Jason Brody from Far Cry 3, if he elected to leave the Rook Islands after his mass murdering adventures, would return to America and try to adjust to a normal life in America after all he went through... and it was when I heard that Florida story about the Speed Trap town... that I was wishing that when I heard Far Cry 5 was taking place in America, that the plotline would be some dumbass corrupt small town cop pulls over Jason Brody for some bullshit charge and... ???... then hilarity ensues.
Just wreaking pro-liberty, anti-corruption havoc across an entire American county in a vibrant open world setting with at least forty hours of gameplay.
Guy kicks ex-gf out, she calls cops on him because he allegedly still has some of his stuff. Cops encourage her to kick in his door, follow her inside, catch guy coming out of shower and taze him, arrest him and charge him with 5 felonies and keep him in jail for a week. He gets a lawyer and the charges are dropped, but there are still zero consequences for the police officers involved.
Ixian
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This is why you just start shooting when unidentified intruders break into your home.
DarthOne
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You joking right?
In this day and age? Nothing, because she’s a woman.
Same goes for that poor guy over in Europe a week or so ago who had a woman get pissed at him because he got her age wrong or something. She smashed a glass bottle over his head, guy almost lost an eye and the woman got away Scot-free thanks to a female judge.
Ixian
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I would say feminist judge. Plenty of women disagree with her ruling, and plenty of men agree with it.
It just some more anecdotal proof of the Disposable Males Hypothesis.
Probably nothing since she could argue that the police goaded her into doing it. If they tried charging her, her lawyer would probably cry "entrapment!"
And the police just would have shot him dead and there'd probably be no shortage of idiots defending them for doing so.
Ixian
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Alternatively, he shoots them all dead completely legally.
DarthOne
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Not in archo-tyranny land. And probably not outside it. As we’ve seen, police more often than not will cover each other. And they get very, very aggressive towards cop killers.
While I have no evidence of this, it also would not surprise me if there were situations where a cop did something wrong, got shot, and their buddies wiped out the shooter and covered up the real reason.
Ixian
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No idea, all I know is that if unidentified intruders burst into my home in the middle of the night, I'm going to take my chances exercising my legal right to self defense, and I'll deal with the smoke after, or be dead.
Well, the thing is, he knew it was the police because they'd been yelling at him through the door just before that, and it was the middle of the day. I have no idea why he apparently felt comfortable enough to run up and take a shower considering they never left the front of his property (I'd have been keeping an eye on them). In any case this was especially stupid because she'd already moved out of the house some time before and given up her key at that time, so it's not like he'd just kicked her out or something like that. I can't understand the mentality of the police officers involved here beyond the one female officer who goaded her into doing it being a feminist, and the guys just having some weird white knight mentality. But then this department had already been taking heat due to raiding the wrong address with a SWAT team and injuring an infant during their raid. Basically we have police who see themselves as being able to do whatever the fuck they want, and unless there are some consequences for it, they're going to keep on thinking that way.