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Not just cops here. General public doesn't give two shits if some drug additct, sex worker, or any less desirables (deemed by society) end up dead or are victims. People would just assume they had it coming to them and move on.
This reminds me of how the idiot Tallahassee Police Department negligently and recklessly arranged a transaction that led to the murder of Rachel Hoffman. >


The purported goal of the operation was to buy 1,500 ecstasy pills, 2 oz. of cocaine, and two handguns, which was contrary to department policy, using $13,000 cash in a buy–bust operation. Hoffman's family stated that all three buys were very out-of-character for her.

This part infuriates me. How incredibly incompetent do you have to be to not see this is a bad idea? Obviously, the dealer is going to be immediately suspicious when their regular weed customer suddenly says “oh by the way, this time I also want to buy a fuckload of hard drugs that I can definitely afford somehow and some guns too because this party is gonna be nutzzz” like how in the actual fuck did they think it was going to play out? >

Coercing a person to do your bidding under threat of imprisonment because they possessed 6 ounces of weed and 4 ecstasy pills also does not sit right with me. >

Best part about it is that none of it actually guarantees you immunity or even leniency. Best the cops can do is “put in a good word” with the prosecutor. >


Best the cops can do is “put in a good word” with the prosecutor.

Which they absolutely won't. Cops think of suspects as subhuman. My aunt(former cop) once told me she believes cops have the right to shoot a fleeing suspect. 
Fuck the police >

Even the cop’s quote about this incident proves your point “she was an addict” so we didn’t give a shit about what happened to her.   How about getting someone’s daughter who is in a bad way some help you piece of shit >

That quote made my stomach turn!

“We’ve always done it this way,” Parker said. “She was an addict and we just used her as an informant like we’ve done a million times before. Looking back, it’s easy to say, ‘What if?’” >

And that's why the police want cannabis to be illegal. >

Yea decent, rational people want cannabis legalized, so that excludes cops. My uncle is a real straight-laced old white judge. Even he wants cannabis legalized because cases clog up the system and wast taxpayer money just to ruin lives. He and I don’t see eye to eye on a lot of political issues but this one is a no-brainer. >

One of my parents works in the courts - loves that cannabis is legal here in NJ, since weed charges are bullshit
hates how the state implemented the expungement of charges
it's apparently the worst way possible - since it is apparently completely different from normal expungements, so it takes triple the time it should >

$70,000 is a pretty low cost to pay for your freedom... I'd totally pay it and run if I knew there was a good chance I would go to prison. >

70k bail set for rape, and he is a career criminal?  I got 150k bail set for defrauding a credit union, it was my first offence. >

In an effort to not make bail keep only the poor in prison, much of bail is pre-set and much lower than it was previously. Because it is pre set it doesn't take into account criminal history of the individual. >

Get rid of bail altogether. Cash shouldn't determine whether you're free or imprisoned. >

How do we determine flight risk? >

Severity of the crime + historical behavior of the suspect >

I guess that works with regular offenders but if you have someone charged with a crime for the first time, do we treat them as less of a risk or more of a risk? >

Give them the benefit of the doubt if the crime is not severe (e.g. non-violent crimes) >


We’ve always done it this way,” Parker said. “She was an addict and we just used her as an informant like we’ve done a million times before. Looking back, it’s easy to say, ‘What if?’  

Bro, WTF. Literally treating her like an object to get results. >

Why the "war on drugs" was so effective. 
"She was an addict"
Seems like some kinda excuse to say that she wasn't worth shit as a person >

That’s how they see people. Addicts, sex workers, etc. are often ignored by police when things happen to them. This is why they’re often targets for murderers, because solving the murder won’t be a priority for most departments. The true crime community often calls them the “less dead” because of how often the police halfass investigations for them.