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K “In one case, the police had absolutely no interest in arresting the criminal activity and instead focused all their efforts on stealing an apartment building from a widow on the grounds that she should have known that there was drug activity in an apartment. The widow alerted the police because of concerns that there appeared to be drug activity in some apartment. The police alleged that privacy concerns purportedly prevented them from sharing any information that would have allowed her to identify and evict the allegedly offending tenant. The police pulled off the scam and used the forfeiture laws to steal and sell the apartment building for their own profit. Unreal.”
J “How about a memorandum of understanding among multiple police agencies providing that the first member of a department to touch the airplane carrying the drugs would get the airplane in the forfeiture action. When the word went out over the radio to make the bust, each department dispatched its fastest sprinter to fly across the tarmac to make first contact with the aircraft. Surreal.”
K “When you dwell in a Kleptocracy, you should expect kleptocratic behavior at every level. Real.”
. . .
K “The people really did win.”
J “The government really did not lose.”
K “The Constitution really did win.”
. . .
[See “Supreme Court Limits Police Power to Seize Private Property” in “The New York Times” by Adam Liptak and Shaila Dewan dated February 20, 2019.]
[See the e-commentary at “Police Police (November 24, 2014)”.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Police Police [But do not stick on your bumper!]
Support your local police [Aspirational!]
Happy International Women’s Day
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