“All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.”

Bullshit. I had nothing to do with it..

“The Politicians who passed these asinine laws that the Police and Prosecutors enforce were elected by the people.”

I repeat: nothing. I never vote, precisely in order that I can stand clean and clear of this sort of thing. Get this good and straight: do you see that “the people” thing? Well, words mean things and I’m one of ‘em, and I do not submit individuals’ rights to the stoopid-lottery of electoral politics.

Everyone else can have all the responsibility for this that they want, but they should bloody keep it to themselves.

I believe that the $350K will come out of the local government’s budget. Yes, their budget probably is supplied by taxes, but they don’t get to arbitrarily increase the taxes whenever they need to pay out a settlement. So the settlement money means the government gets less money. Which is probably the most effective way to incentivize the local government to pressure it’s police force to stop their violent behavior.

http://www.theagitator.com/2008/03/25/the-running-dogs-of-interior-design/

Maybe we should see if the cops are on the take from IDPC…..

You are correct in that it was politicians that passed the rediculous drug laws. But it was police that created the violence, celebrate the violence and revel in the violence. If you read some of their message boards or hear them talk, it is clear. They can’t wait for their chance to hurt people.

And when anybody fights back they harass and intimidate like cowards. Whiny little bastards that abuse their power and fight for the right to continue abusing their power. They crushed this guy’s ribs, and there is not a decent human being among them that even feels bad about it, much less feels they should admit responsibility or do something to avoid hurting an innocent person in the future. They don’t care if they do. They will just cover it up. Only people that enjoy inflicting pain protect their ability to do so to this degree.

When are we going to start holding bad cops personally responsible for their actions? This is one of the reasons why I believe police unions should be disbanded — not only do they protect dirty cops, they intimidate witnesses. (Derrick Foster among others)

On one of the newspaper web pages a question was asked: Why isn’t Ryan Frederick’s family screaming bloody murder and demanding an independent investigation? My suspicion is that union members have already told them to shut up, otherwise Ryan will not survive to see a trial. Such things do happen in government custody.

So I guess it isn’t ‘everyday’, right, coppers? Actually, it is very rare. If you take out the times you ‘put your lives on the line’ as part of the drug war, (Since that is a war you started and escalated to one of violence) you would actually be much more safe. And so would the rest of us.

Of course, it was. From the cops’ perspective it would be pointless to conduct a raid if you eliminated the fun part. Also, I think they probably kick the shit out of anyone who rudely makes them look stupid by not having any drugs after the cops took time out of their very busy day to conduct the raid.

But, we must also see the good side to this. It’s nice that it only took the city four years to step up to the plate and settle with the guy.

“We announced and he should have known it was police, and when we realized he knew we were here, we yelled ‘eight ball’ meaning the guy inside knew we were here and the raid was ‘compromised’.”