NakedOnMyChain
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Joined: 11/29/2004 From: Indiana Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver You can file a police report on just about anything, including your neighbours dog crapping on your drive. Now police action or convictions, that means something. Not particularly. I've seen a lot of questionable crap get prosecuted. And just because nothing is ever done about a police report doesn't mean it wasn't a serious violation of the law. Many times there are just too many hurdles to jump to actually prosecute someone, and the police have to, or simply do give it up. If you'd like an example, currently we have a West Lafayette police officer on trial for several counts (don't feel like looking in the paper to dig out what they are). What did he do? He wrote an anonymous e-mail tipping off our county officials to the fact that several WL police officers drank and drove, then crashed their police car into someone's mailbox after a trip to Chicago. He told the truth to make sure that this wouldn't happen again. What did the other officers get? Suspensions, even after absolute proof of their actions. What is this honest officer going to get? Fired. Even the police chief is backing that action. It's fucking ridiculous. Of course, I'm a bit biased, because one of the officers in question, the director of the West Lafayette detective department (the one who actually drove drunk and crashed into the mailbox) is an unmitigated ass. My sister used to date his son. A short time after they broke up, he came over to her house and with no warning charged in and broke her nose. I proceeded to attempt to get him the hell off her, and in the process broke his nose. (No, I'm not exaggerating.) We called 911, and you know what the officer on the scene did? Called the bastard's Dad. By this time, he had stormed home to Daddy, and I damn near went to jail, even though he had attacked my little sister (who was seventeen at the time, he was nineteen and six foot three) in her own house. We had witnesses to what had happened, but somehow the police overlooked the fact that a drunk nineteen year old stole his father's cop car and beat the shit out of a seventeen year old girl, all because his father was an important man. We filed charges and nothing happened. He filed charges and I was being questioned by the police two hours later. I wasn't convicted, barely, because he obviously didn't have a shred of evidence. That's justice for you.
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