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why are these people acting like such pricks? What do they have to gain?
by ux-app 9y ago
why are these people acting like such pricks? What do they have to gain?
- jopsen 9y agoTough on crime.. Aren't most of these politically elected or appointed? In many other countries the police chief, DA and judges are independent or their appointment has many levels of indirection.
- bryanrasmussen 9y agoIt sounds like money, as well as probably being able to screw someone over they don't like.
- ux-app 9y agois such widespread, systemic corruption an issue in the US? As a far away observer (AUS), the US system does not seem so pervasively corrupt.
- lovich 9y agoThere's very little to no overtime bribing, it's rare enough to make the news. Kickbacks though, or simply fucking over someone you don't like, runs rampant.
- hnzix 9y agoConfiscation of property and cash seems to be a big problem.
- lovich 9y agohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-took-more-stuff-from-people-than-burglars-did-last-year/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-... Worse than our actual thieves. I am on the paranoid side and most Americans don't think this way as far as I know, but I feel safer walking through a bad neighborhood with a pile of cash than going by a cop. I'll most likely get mugged in the bad neighborhood but the cops will take the money and put me in jail
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- nilved 9y agoYou're not observing very closely then. Or like, at all.
- brendanw 9y agoThe police can sell property for funding. A convoluted process for recovering property increases demand for law services, so even though defense attorneys might be against the process ethically, they still stand to gain from the process financially. The DA wants to have as many power levers as possible. The courts collect fees to file a motion.