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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.
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.