NYPD found planting drugs on innocent people "to meet arrest quotas." Yay or nay?

by tncdel Posted 2011/12/03 09:02:36

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	Yay! [explain].	1 vote	6%
	Nay! [explain].	17 votes	94%

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*Mahogany Goddess of P.H.A.E.T 2011/12/03 09:19:48

Nay! [explain].

+3
This isn't anything new, though I am glad you posted this, since certain cops/departments have been doing this for years.
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ndaye 2012/01/09 13:25:52
Grayfox1940 2011/12/04 20:10:18 (edited)

Yay! [explain].

Sometimes they need to help the evidence when they are certain of guilt but substantial proof is impossible to find!!! This is part tongue in cheek but sometimes true also

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sglmom 2011/12/04 09:57:56

Nay! [explain].

Can we say .. CRIMINALS behind the Badges?

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mal 2011/12/03 23:16:01

Nay! [explain].

+1
trash

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Classical Liberal 2011/12/03 19:10:07

Nay! [explain].

+1
This is why arrest quotas are bad. They don't actually reward police for doing their job -- deterring crime by catching criminals.

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Doug King 2011/12/03 17:13:57

Nay! [explain].

Not a good thing!

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SteveMarine- JLA 2011/12/03 16:31:44

Nay! [explain].

+1
That's no surprise. Larger cities have a lot of corruption. How ever I don't see why they need to plant narcotics when it shouldn't be that hard to find actual guilty drug dealers and users...

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Shae to SteveMa... 2011/12/03 19:11:40

+1
because the acutally drug dealers pay them off.
Or the police buy from them.

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C-ZAR™, Emperor of the PHÆT 2011/12/03 14:20:47
Dan ☮ R P ☮ 2012 ☮ 2011/12/03 13:42:41

Nay! [explain].

Another reason to end the drug war and decriminalize drugs. Even if the police were 100% honest (most are but there are areas like NY and Chicago were they are seriously corrupt), I dont want my tax dollars being wasted just to arrest and incarcerate (and if they are thrown in private prisons, the prisons put them to work as slaves stealing our jobs) people for just smoking some harmless marijuana.

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S. Gompers 2011/12/03 11:41:29

Nay! [explain].

+1
Isn't the first time cops broke the law, definitely won't be the last. I think it will become more common.

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Jo 2011/12/03 10:00:37

Nay! [explain].

although this practice is nothing new, its a myth that police officers have "arrest quotas"; not true at all.

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tncdel to Jo 2011/12/03 10:13:18

+1
I think it's a myth that there aren't.

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Jo to tncdel 2011/12/03 15:30:29

my husband was an officer for 13 years, and he and his friends used to laugh so hard at the people that believed that.

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Shae to Jo 2011/12/03 19:23:18

What does happen in big cities during election times is the city government tells the police to up the amt of arrests to make the incumbant mayor and police cheif look good to the public.
The police who are already being paid off by the drug dealers to look the other way find other people (mostly homeless) to set up.
It does too things, makes the governing body look good and gets some of the homeless off the streets. They problem is know these guys who are being set up have a drug charge against them and will always be homeless.
Its a viscous cycle.

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TiY ™ 99% to Jo 2011/12/03 14:14:54

Not all police have them, but in large cities like New York they get millions of dollars to fight against drugs as long as they can take X amount of users/dealers off the streets in a certain period of time.

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*Mahogany Goddess of P.H.A.E.T 2011/12/03 09:19:48

Nay! [explain].

+3
This isn't anything new, though I am glad you posted this, since certain cops/departments have been doing this for years.

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tomas to *Mahoga... 2011/12/03 09:22:48

+2
MANY years and continues today nationwide.

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tomas 2011/12/03 09:08:40

Nay! [explain].

+3
Had a friend many years ago go through this exact nightmare. He was exonerated after spending a LOT of money for attorneys and never got an apology and the police went on like nothing ever happened. It DOES happen more often than people might think.

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tncdel to tomas 2011/12/03 09:17:58

+3
So too people framed for murder.

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tomas to tncdel 2011/12/03 09:24:04

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Even though I know OJ was guilty, the cop-planted glove sure as hell didn't help get his guilty ass convicted.

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*Mahoga... to tomas 2011/12/03 09:28:11

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LOL true, but certain people get away with so much, though in the end his ass still went to prison LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. (Moron)

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tomas to *Mahoga... 2011/12/03 09:43:12

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he did, but not for the murders he was guilty of.

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*Mahoga... to tomas 2011/12/03 09:47:23

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I know, but it's hilarious how karma got the inane sadistic bastard.

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tomas to *Mahoga... 2011/12/03 09:49:01

+2
OK...agree with that.

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tncdel to *Mahoga... 2011/12/03 10:16:00

+1
Karma caught up with him, didn't it? But he lived in ridicule and infamy bordering on the ludicrous. I wonder how many people sarcastically asked him if he found the murderer yet.

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