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Except, of course, that that's 100% Hollywood. You can't flush a very large quantity of drugs when the police knock on your door. Not only would you have to d
by qball 6y ago
Except, of course, that that's 100% Hollywood.
You can't flush a very large quantity of drugs when the police knock on your door. Not only would you have to do a very extensive amount of pre-planning to destroy evidence, but 2 minutes is not nearly enough time to flush a sellable stash (i.e. if you're a dealer).
Sure, I guess you could have search warrants for small amounts of drugs (i.e. someone you just sold to), but to be perfectly honest kicking in doors over very small amounts of drugs (i.e. an end user) is beneath the dignity of the state to prosecute in that manner.
And even if you could flush your entire stash, you get a warrant either for the septic tank contents or what's about to enter the sewer. Almost like you have to do actual police work rather than kicking in someone's door in the middle of the night, throwing flashbangs into cribs, and massacring homeowners who dared defend themselves against what in any other circumstance would obviously be a violent home invasion.
(It should be absolutely embarrassing that laws get made like this; a lot of gun law is based on what Hollywood says about them rather than their reality.)
- SWIMdealsReally 6y agoTo add on to this, small-time distributors usually have a "clean house" policy. Drugs are stored off-property or in places where further search warrants are required, like a safe, or a locked toolshed. In the event something tips them off, they "clean house" and relocate their stash. It's also dead simple to "stealth" processed drugs -- so simple in-fact that these drugs come in by foot, plane, and cargo boat seemlessly. The only thing you need to worry about is transportation in a vehicle with a tiny solution space for where the drugs could be hidden, upon a search, such as say a small boat or plane. Cars are hit or miss, because a few officers only deal with the dumbest of the dumb drug user day-to-day, while the coast guard has experience with more elaborate setups. It's kind of ironic. Cops busting down dumb dealers has a way of culling the herd, removing the worst-prepared, and giving more information to the most-prepared, to be even better prepared.
- JoeSmithson 6y ago> "actual police work" What is "actual police work" in this context? Searching a suspect's home after obtaining a warrant isn't "actual police work"?
- xnyan 6y agoThis is a strawman argument, they did not say searching a home is not real police work: > actual police work rather than kicking in someone's door in the middle of the night, throwing flashbangs into cribs, and massacring homeowners who dared defend themselves against what in any other circumstance would obviously be a violent home invasion.
- JoeSmithson 6y agoI chose to ignore that part because it was impossible to come up with a good faith interpretation of it. I've executed "no knock" search warrants (we would say "forced entry" or "MOE" in the UK) and caught suspects in the process of destroying evidence. This is like 15 seconds after attempting entry. 2 minutes is easily enough time to flush kgs of drugs or destroy a USB drive.
- CompanionCuuube 6y agoI'm glad that you're here to provide some real world experience to people who don't really understand how it works in reality.