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Sad that the only ppl who are gonna pay up here are the counties taxpayers, just take this settlement out of the pension of these officers, maybe something will change then.  This lady has along road ahead of her but hopefully she'll get some cash with her lifelong trauma ahead of her.
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. >

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. >

Also why a lot of folks don’t care about conditions in prison, they lump incarcerated people in with those folks and just write them off. They’re not human anymore. >

A very large chunk of the population doesn't care about the conditions in prison because, in what they consider an ideal world, everyone who goes to prison would instead be hung from the gallows erected behind the courthouse fifteen minutes after sentencing. >

Yet they ignore the fact that our wealthy and well-connected have committed far greater crimes and treated them like job perks.
Poor people are in prison not because they're more criminal than the rich, but because they couldn't afford the lawyers and the bribes. >

Orange is the New Black (the book) provides a really eye-opening perspective on this because the author is one of the few wealthy and well-connected people who has been in the system and talks about what it’s really like and what the people in it are really like: she’s now a decarceration activist. >


“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?’”

WTF?  He said this in DEFENSE of what they did.....he basically just said "oh she was an addict, she deserved what happened to her." >

Having 25 grams of weed is the same as being a heroin addict. 
25 grams of weed is like 140$ in Canada. The police turn around and say "Now try to buy $13,000 worth of drugs and illegal handguns cause i need a that detective promotion"
those cops were greedy and stupid. >

Louisiana cops are fucking awful while having so much political pull. The Sheriffs association gutted the weed bill that would've legalized it medicinally. Not to mention the Dept of Corrections takes a significant portion of our state budget. >

Not just Louisiana cops. >

How does one conduct an unmonitored sting? Ridiculous >

They would never let that happen if another badge guy was the one undercover. However when it’s a civillian it’s okay, we’re expendable. >

fucking cops are not military, they are also civilians. >

Civilian (n) a person not in the armed services or the police force
Oxford English dictionary. >

Nah, cops are civilians. 
The reason military aren't civilians is because they are actually under a completely different set of laws than regular people called the UCMJ. Military for examlle, are not subject to labor laws. 
None of that apllies to police. They are civilians. >

The law clearly doesn't apply to police either. >

Well gentlemen, it doesn’t matter that this is the way you’ve done it for years. It went wrong NOW, she was assaulted NOW. Saying she’s a drug addict, just makes you look ridiculous. Because she has a drug problem she deserves to be sexually assaulted? >

Why would you assign a “drug addict” this level of responsibility without owning any of it yourself? >

The whole point is they have an addict do their job for free and if it goes wrong it doesn't affect them >

"This is the way we operate.  Looking back its easy to say 'what if'" hardly sounds like an effective defense.  Ive been on two criminal juries.  Thats not an excuse.  It is a confession. >

sounds like something the police did in a few towns over from me. the girl had been caught selling, police set her up to buy from people in a van, and they watched and did absolutely nothing as those people pulled her into the van and drove away. that girl? never found. I guess she’s another “expendable addict”. >

Buying a different than selling. I’m more sad about the addict in this story. >

“But what would we do about rapists without police?”

The suit filed this week in Alexandria alleges Rapides Parish sheriff’s deputies “coerced” the woman into working as a confidential informant after her arrest on felony drug charges and failed to keep their promise to protect her if a purchase went bad.
The January 2021 incident was the subject of an Associated Press investigation that highlighted the perils police informants face seeking to “work off” criminal charges in often loosely regulated, secretive arrangements with law enforcement. >

This is exactly what would happen. Rapists would rape and the police would never show up >

That's already what happens. It would still happen in a world with no police, but at least then maybe we'd have something better to replace them. >


“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?’” 

Ah yes, she was just an expendable addict. We’ve always done it this way! Why change or make things better?!  
Fucking disgusting. >

And if you think that's bad, remember those cops who used a teenage girl as bait for a serial rapist and then the rapist actually got her? >

Oh god, no. I missed that one. >

A friend of mine was busted for weed when she was younger. They gave her a “deal” and made her buy a buttload of heroin. The dealer was suspect and made her do some before she could make the purchase. So the cops made a pot smoking woman put her life at risk and she had to use heroin. >

They need to go to prison for this! >

The pigs don’t consider her a person they consider her a thing to be used. >

"She was an addict and we just used her as an informant like we’ve done a million times before."
That quote from one of the overseers says a lot about how they don't consider her a person. >

Overseer = Officer. (KRS One, Sound of da Police) >

And of course the police devalue and smear her by saying she was an addict. Obviously perfectly healthy, upstanding citizens aren’t making deals to become  undercover drug informants. They should own the mistake, pay up, and the entire country should change their protocols. >

I’ve had many people degrade addicts in front of me before in horrible eats, and they tend to backtrack extremely quick when I tell them I was an addict for over 15 years, since the age of 12, with 5 years clean. They say things like “you don’t look like one” or “I didn’t mean ones like you”. Just admit that you need someone to look down on to feel better about yourself >

Congrats on 5 years clean! >

Our government is corrupt from the floor up >

Fuck cops, and every public prosecutor that enables them. >

I love that the cop’s response is “Well this is how we always do it!”.  Sure, we COULD invest in some basic one-way listening devices, but then we wouldn’t have money to properly militarize our police!  It’s easy to say “What if they’re raped?” <~ end of statement.
Fuck. The. Police. >

"Just an addict" he calls her! Can he be anymore dehumanizing? >

“A Louisiana cop” is quickly coming for that “A Florida man” number 1 spot. >

Can’t wait to hear the blue lives matter crowd bend over backwards to defend this >

Absolute scum, those officers.