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Every single person involved in this operation through the entire chain of command should be dismissed, named publicly, and barred from any future law enforceme
by helpfulclippy 2y ago
Every single person involved in this operation through the entire chain of command should be dismissed, named publicly, and barred from any future law enforcement role and face criminal charges. All victims should get complete restitution, and the assets of offenders should be used to finance additional compensation. Ditto for all other instances of armed robbery committed by law enforcement, whether they branded it as “civil asset forfeiture” or some other bureaucratic euphemism.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoThis isn't even radical. Armed robbery is the flattest, least hyperbolic, actually nicest way to label it, because a normal armed robber doesn't get to do it in broad daylight in front of witnesses behind a badge. The victims can at least hope to maybe call the police on a normal armed robber. Being the police while doing it really deserves some whole extra order of magnitude of consequences.
- hipadev23 2y ago[flagged]
- MarcoZavala 2y ago[dead]
- griomnib 2y agoTo be fair, Biden is currently President and this happened under his watch. The buck rests in the Oval Office.
- hipadev23 2y agoIt’s actually been in operation since 1974 as part of Nixon’s War on Drugs
- skellington 2y agoDOJ/DEA already said they are stopping the practice in airports. But what about the rest of the country and all the police departments that do the same thing every day?
- lambda 2y agoAlso to be fair, the Biden DOJ did just stop it, after the DEA failed to uphold their promises to track each such encounter and provide adequate training and oversight. https://oig.justice.gov/news/doj-oig-releases-management-alert-identifying-concerns-deas-transportation-interdiction https://oig.justice.gov/news/doj-oig-releases-management-ale...
- yyuugg 2y agoDid they stop it? Maybe in airports, maybe. The practice is still very much alive.
- lambda 2y agoThe order to stop the program of "consensual searches" at mass transportation facilities was sent out on November 12, and the more detailed report that I linked to on November 21st. Do you have knowledge of these DEA consensual searches happening at airports or other mass transit hubs after November 12? Or are you referring to broader law enforcement attempts to do consensual searches or civil asset forfeiture seizures, which are absolutely still a problem? I guess my point is, there are still massive problems with the way policing happens in this country. But the Biden administration has ordered this particular problematic behavior to end, specifically in response to the incident brought up in this article. So, are you just making vague generalizations, or do you have actual knowledge that this program has not ended?
- yyuugg 2y agoCivil asset forfeiture, including by the DEA, is still very much a thing. Having a President end it in airports affects some tiny fraction of the broader problem. And it only ends it until a future admin un-ends it. I could see both democrats and republicans deciding that they will allow this practice again. I think it's much more correct to call the practice "paused" until we legislate it away. "Ending" implies a finality we cannot possibly be comfortable with.
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- throwawayian 2y agoHow is this any different to auditors or penetration testers doing a crap job? The payment might be in the form of bonuses or more work billed, but it’s just not realistic.
- wat10000 2y agoHow is it in any way similar?
- dudeinjapan 2y agoBecause auditors and penetration testers, even incompetent ones, are not government employees violating anyone's 4th amendment rights.
- carbocation 2y agoAccording to the final paragraph of the article, Nicholas Nimeskern remains employed in law enforcement.
- ta988 2y agoAs always and will get promoted in a few months.