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This article sounds like FBI and/or Internal Affairs should be involved into investigating State Farm and their paid prosecutors/policemen. Anybody knows anythi
by unnouinceput 7y ago
This article sounds like FBI and/or Internal Affairs should be involved into investigating State Farm and their paid prosecutors/policemen. Anybody knows anything or is too early? Or maybe nothing will happen due to too much money poured into right pockets?
- writepub 7y agoLaws with inherent conflicts of interest are supposedly unconstitutional. Can any lawyer comment on this? Can we have the ACLU challenge these in court?
- jkaplowitz 7y agoSuch laws are generally unethical, I'd agree with that, but what rule of the constitution do they supposedly violate?
- ceejayoz 7y agoThe use of privately gathered evidence intended to be handed over to law enforcement may violate the Fourth Amendment via the exclusionary rule. That insurance customers are contractually obligated to assist the insurer with investigations may violate the Fifth if that contract is being abused in this way, as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusionary_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusionary_rule
- SilasX 7y agoYes, when third parties start acting under the direction of the police, they become the police in the eyes of the constitution, with the same restrictions. That has nothing to do with the GGP’s strange claim that there’s some general constitutional prohibition against laws with “an inherent conflict of interest”.
- sureaboutthis 7y agoI don't see whether the cops are doing this on their own time or not. I'm betting it's on their own time but it's unclear to me but cops pick up a lot of work for private companies on their own time so this would be nothing new.