After listening carefully to the two policemen, the judge had a problem: He did not believe them.I hope no one is suggesting this kind of "Only One" abuse is routine, pervasive and unpunished...? Because if citizen rights can be violated by civil authority with impunity, that would mean we are living in a police state. And once you tolerate and encourage lawbreaking by those who are sworn to uphold it, the whole thing begins to unravel and everyone becomes a criminal--creating a "need" for yet more enforcement.
...Yet for all his disapproval of what the police had done, the judge said he hated to make negative rulings about officers’ credibility. “I don’t like to jeopardize their career and all the rest of it,” he said.
He need not have worried. The Police Department never learned of his criticism, and the officers — like many others whose word has been called into question — faced no disciplinary action or inquiry.
You don't think there could be any design behind that, do you...?
Nah. That's as unbelievable as a LEO lying under oath.
[Via The Earth Bound Misfit]
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As I have always said, a government that lies to it's people is not a government for the people.
America was lost when government because so powerful that the people working for government started seeing the citizens as dumb and stupid and started passing laws to swindle and cheat them so parasites could get a free ride.
For Pete's sake, David! You wouldn't really want a judge to hamper the career of a professional liar, would you? How else can we incarcerate people at will if an officer is held to the truth and not allowed immunity from prosecution for perjury.
How would any prosecutor ever get to be governor without a long record of convictions, righteous or not?
The very first thing the judge should want to do is to end the career of a perjuring leo. What the fuck is wrong with his priorities that he can mouth such stupidity and not realize it after he has heard it from his own mouth?
I think perhaps he was personally insulted by the assumptions on the parts of the officers involved that he would be too stupid to not believe them. If it was about the law and justice, a judge would have them escorted from the courtroom in manacles by a bailiff while he instructed the prosecutor to file charges.
This is just a pissing match over who has the biggest package, it isn't about doing the right thing.
Fred Reed has commented extensively on this phenomenon.
Officer Daughtry [the one with the "system" for spotting armed civilians] replied that over a three-day period, he and his partner had stopped 30 to 50 people [to search them]. One had a gun.
Basically anyone appearing nervous under police scrutiny should be searched, eh? And what proportion of the population is that these days, after Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Tracy Ingle, oh, and about 100 others we could name?
Every attorney who has been a defense counsel, that I have talked to, knows well that cops lie on the stand.
In fact, my attorney once commented to me that he knew of two (2) cops on the city and county payrolls who could be trusted to tell the truth no matter what.
Out of sixty-five men, he trusted two of them. Neither of those two were the Chief or Sheriff. They weren't even considered promotable.
One of them quit the force and became a county judge. The other eventually retired.
Pfft, what "jeopardy?" The couple of cases we've had out here involving lying officers have just ended up with them moved to administrative positions - or to traffic patrol, where the burden of proof is even lower.
Or else the DA makes sure to get it in front of a different judge.
While taking a basic course in law in one of my many stints in college, though unfinished, the professor stated unequivocally that cops commit 95% of the perjury committed in this country under oath in a courtroom. He cited several studies that held to that percentage. And he was a great supporter of the police, so his dog in that fight had interests in opposition to what he was saying.
I do not know the methodology of the studies, because how do you get a liar to admit he is, and how do you believe him once he has. However, this professor who was also a practicing attorney and sometimes prosecutor was adamant that what he said was true.
Having more experience in life than all the youngsters in the class, I was the only one who wasn't surprised or inclined to argue the point.
So, just why do people continue to attempt to convince me that the vast majority of LEOs are wonderful, honest people and it's just a small minority making the rest look bad?
Gregg, it's the liberal media who loves big government that tells everyone that police are what they are. Kind of like the other big group of parasites sucking the working class dry, teachers. For years teachers said we need, more, more and yet more. The people responded by allowing local government to hold their homes for ransom every year. The SAT scores keep going backwards and the teachers say, "it's the parents fault".
The lame stream media is all about huge government and the people having to work for the government and not the other way around. I'm sure every Marxist piece of filth in the liberal media wishes they could have seen the slaves built the Egyptian pyramids. The bullwhips cracking on the backs of the workers in a place where the government was god!
Gregg, it isn't all cops. It's only the criminal 95% of them making the rest look bad.
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