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I don't suppose you recall any details that might help us find the story? If true this would make me happier than anything else I learned in probably the past

I don't suppose you recall any details that might help us find the story? If true this would make me happier than anything else I learned in probably the past 2 years.

Gustomaximus 5y ago
Sorry it was a long time ago. I think it was on reddit. Guessing Colorado as early days of legalisation but this is news article from years ago. It might have been a state not fed thing too as I was thinking about it after and that makes more sense logically. I also tried to find/link when I wrote comment but I couldn't find it again. But 100% read about this some years back and the weight/value cops used as damages used in court.
gruez 5y ago
>If true this would make me happier than anything else I learned in probably the past 2 years. until you realize that it's a nice "gotcha" moment for the cops, but the taxpayers are the ones paying the bill.
- boring_twenties 5y ago
  Sure, and the taxpayers pay the bill every time a victim successfully sues or settles with a police department, too. So what? At the end of the day cops get away with all this shit because the taxpayers support them, whether tacitly or explicitly. Hitting them in the pocketbook is a perfectly valid tactic. Maybe once they have no money left for high school football, they'll wake up and demand that their government reign in the out of control cops. And if they don't, well, they fully deserve to pay every single victim.
  - yeetaccount4 5y ago
    It’s simple, get rid of qualified immunity. Set reasonable standards and hold them personably and financially responsible when they deviate. And while I’m on my internet soapbox, civil asset forfeiture laws gotta go too. That shit is plain theft and violates the 4th.
dntrkv 5y ago
Like any other story of its type, the truth is gonna be much more mundane and nuanced.

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I don't suppose you recall any details that might help us find the story? If true this would make me happier than anything else I learned in probably the past

by boring_twenties 5y ago

I don't suppose you recall any details that might help us find the story? If true this would make me happier than anything else I learned in probably the past 2 years.

Gustomaximus 5y ago
Sorry it was a long time ago. I think it was on reddit. Guessing Colorado as early days of legalisation but this is news article from years ago. It might have been a state not fed thing too as I was thinking about it after and that makes more sense logically. I also tried to find/link when I wrote comment but I couldn't find it again. But 100% read about this some years back and the weight/value cops used as damages used in court.
gruez 5y ago
>If true this would make me happier than anything else I learned in probably the past 2 years. until you realize that it's a nice "gotcha" moment for the cops, but the taxpayers are the ones paying the bill.
- boring_twenties 5y ago
  Sure, and the taxpayers pay the bill every time a victim successfully sues or settles with a police department, too. So what? At the end of the day cops get away with all this shit because the taxpayers support them, whether tacitly or explicitly. Hitting them in the pocketbook is a perfectly valid tactic. Maybe once they have no money left for high school football, they'll wake up and demand that their government reign in the out of control cops. And if they don't, well, they fully deserve to pay every single victim.
  - yeetaccount4 5y ago
    It’s simple, get rid of qualified immunity. Set reasonable standards and hold them personably and financially responsible when they deviate. And while I’m on my internet soapbox, civil asset forfeiture laws gotta go too. That shit is plain theft and violates the 4th.
dntrkv 5y ago
Like any other story of its type, the truth is gonna be much more mundane and nuanced.