The latest Stupid Police Trick – online identity theft:
Now that the case has become public knowledge, it is “under review by Justice Department officials”. I’m not holding my breath waiting for Sinnigen to be punished for his various civil and criminal offenses (just off the top of my head: breach of contract, copyright violation, and reckless endangerment).
The police are engaged in copyright infringement now? Say it ain’t so! WHEN WILL THE ABUSES END?!?!?!?!
When enough police are punished severely enough for perpetrating them*, and when the power to commit misdeeds is taken away from them in the first place (e.g. no doubt Ms Arquiett wishes that she’d properly secured her cell phone and kept snoops out of it).
*Applying the “with great power comes great responsibility” principle, police should be punished more severely for a given offense than the Teeming Millions, up to and including the death penalty – carried out publicly with a Danny-Deeveresque public degrading before his former peers prior to execution – for particularly aggravated cases.
Well, it does give a person one hell of an out.
Heh, you know all that crazy shit I’ve put out on the net?
Totally not me, just the po pos trying to catch some crazy assed person.
Maybe I’ve been watching too many movies, but wouldn’t this be putting the woman at risk by unfairly associating her name (and pictures) with fishing for evidence?
She’s at increased risk sure. However since this became public it’s now known that she was originally cooperating with the police, she just had no knowledge of this specific act.
Soooooo she’s in increased danger in either case. More so, now (IMO).
Regards,
-Bouncer-
Imagine it was being done to you or your family, and somebody tracks you guys down thinking you’re the one posting. Are you still so nonchalant about their actions?
What if the DEA Agent, posting as your kids, said to meet him somewhere for sex to entrap the guy, and your kids get hurt because of that?
Dude, relax. It’s just Smapti.
If it was me me? I’d probably sue. But that’s not the scenario we’re talking about - no one has retaliated against this woman, and she wasn’t just some random civilian - she was part of the drug ring the police were trying to bust, to which she has already plead guilty in a previous proceeding. This is just old-fashioned detective work using new tools to make it easier.
The greatest offense the police have committed is violating Facebook’s Terms of Service (which I can’t imagine anyone not employed by Facebook losing a minute of sleep over).
And pictures of the woman’s kids and nieces and nephews being posted?
He couldn’t see those-The cop ass in front of his face was blocking the view.
Well bless your heart, you’re just a special kind of stupid, aren’t you?
What about them? The police had the legal right to use the pictures they lawfully seized from her phone.
Just ask Hal Briston 'bout that. 
sorry, that was baaaaaad
It’s so true. No different than when we used to take a suspect, wire his nuts up to a coil and battery, and make them call all their scum friends to a meet, so we could bust em and take the moonshine.
Good old-fashioned detective work, it beats having a day job
11 minutes after OP. Just curious, is that fast for him or what? I know the other day he took several hours to get to a cops-done-wrong thread but I heard he was tied up in traffic and also attended an event at his local precinct that ran long.
I just know that I can hardly wait for him to get to 1983 in his ongoing series of polls about the best #1 single of the year. I’ve got some smack to post about a group Sting used to be in.
Yet. No one has retaliated against her YET. If/when that happens, she likely will be unable to sue. Corpses hire no attorneys.
Are you seriously saying that a crime has not been committed because nobody has broken her kneecaps YET? When they do, this will magically turn into a crime?
Well, yes. That’s how crimes generally work - they have to happen before they can be considered crimes.
But that’s the great thing about having power, you don’t need responsibility. That’s for suckers lower on the food chain.
Ultimately, this is one of the ways in which tolerating police abuse makes the public less safe – allowing them to get away with not doing their jobs properly turns the police into useless parasites.