Posted on Saturday, September 03, 2011 - 05:53 pm:
From the comments...
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Actually, this video has floated around LE circles for months, this is just a parody with another guy in the officer's precinct. Ala Super Troopers style.
Just sayin. People are going to have their OMG COPS R EVIL shit regardless.
You can get any government information as part of the freedom of information act, including videos, and it's free. You pay these guys through your taxes, the information is yours, you just ask. You just can't use it for financial gain, and if there's a cost to get the information, that's all you pay....and that only happens if they have to go to their archives to get the data, which would mean 1+ years later (give or take, different jurisdictions have different methods).
There are some neat tricks with it, too. Let's say you get cut off in traffic, and you want a video of it. If you were cut off by a government building, they almost always have everything on camera. You can ask for the video from that building during that time....for free.
The money may or may not have to do with drug dealing but who the he!! carries around 100K in their vehicle? I mean c'mon, anybody doing legal, legit business with that kinda money is going to have it wired or bank check.
Maybe I'm just poorer than I thought I was? What do you carry in your Cortech bag?
It's called presumption of innocence - the whole pretense is seizure based upon only suspicion that it's drug-related (without any actual proof) That dang pesky 4th Amendment and founding principle of our Government, don't ya know. .
If I, for example, don't trust banks and want to keep all my cash with me, that's my prerogative (maybe some would consider that loony, but it's perfectly legal)
(Message edited by stirz007 on September 06, 2011)
Kyrocket, what difference does it make to anyone what i do with my cash? what business is it of the government(aka the people) how i hold my securities? there are many many people that carry fat stacks all the time and are what i think you might consider to be 'legit' businessmen(women)
I will not defend the methodology or the 4th amendment issue. However, the strategy is sound if your goal is to damage the DTO (drug trafficking organization.) If LEO seized a whopping 50% of incoming drugs it would have little effect on the profits of the DTO as the street value of the drugs that did escape capture would increase. If you want to hurt a DTO, you catch the money not the drugs. Attacking the supply is a poor way to 'fight' the war on drugs. The supply will simple shift to meet demand. The only way to succeed in the 'WOD' is to reduce the demand and to choke the profitability of the suppliers. Not saying this is the proper way to do so.