TheAgitator.com
Another Isolated Incident?
Thursday, October 9th, 2008Courthouse confessions is the blog of a photographer who snaps photos of people as they leave courthouses, then conducts brief interviews with them about their story.
So keep that in mind when reading this account of a botched drug raid. Certainly has the ring of truth to it.
Has it ever occurred to anyone that “law enforcement” is now an employment function of the welfare state and that a great deal of this sort of thing might just be busy-work?
That’s a very general conjecture, and I do not believe that anyone would ever dig up a memo or anything stating the thing that bluntly. However, when I consider things like “just doing their jobs” defenses of these animals and the general (and truly anti-American) cultural embrace of the non-idea that people have a right to a job, I really do begin to believe that this whole problem is a lot bigger in conceptual scope than anyone has ever really figured out.
I was talking to a cop one day that I know. He agrees that the “drug war” is pointless. He said a lot of cops feel that way, too, but there’s a general feeling of “what would we do then?”
The fact is, getting rid of the drug war would allow us to dramatically cut the police forces, but lower taxes would quickly create jobs for them elsewhere. Jobs where they would actually be contributing to the GDP rather than leeching off the side of it…
“just doing their job”, isn’t that the same excuse that was tried at Nuremberg, back in 1946? Yeah, most “cops” probably KNOW the phoniness of the “drugwar”, but then , they just go for the gusto anyway.That would still make “them” guilty anyway, right?
The profiled couple’s statements weren’t sworn under oath in a court of law, so of course they are lying. The police are always right and would never do such terrible things.
/do I really need to?
[...] Not really the Dem’s platform rather it’s a shoplifter justifying her thefts. But you knew that. Via Balko. [...]