Thursday, January 25, 2018

Police state on trial in Baltimore

The Baltimore Sun is reporting on some wild roguery in the police force - the Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force - that seems more common than rogue, including police officers robbing people, and Charlie Pierce has a commentary on it with this conclusion:
Ask yourself how calm you would be if, every day, corrupt cops came up and rousted you because they didn’t think you had a legitimate reason … for owning a backpack. We’ve gone backwards on [criminal justice reform], like we have on so many others. The ground we have to make up is about the width of a continent now. And that’s just to get back to 1789.

  Charles P Pierce
Of course, this is nothing new, and if you want to watch an entire documentary on mobster police that will leave you shaking your head, watch The Seven Five on Netflix.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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