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fried eggs

(910 posts)
Sat Sep 24, 2016, 11:07 AM Sep 2016

Putting myself in the mindset of a crooked and or trigger happy cop...

Wouldn't most crooked, trigger happy cops carry extra unmarked guns and drugs to plant on victims, especially now when outrage against police brutality has peaked? Even good cops make mistakes, do you think they haven't thought about how they would get out of a bind and avoid prison?

Google police officer planted evidence. Those are just the known cases.

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Putting myself in the mindset of a crooked and or trigger happy cop... (Original Post) fried eggs Sep 2016 OP
I don't think there is any doubt that happens Egnever Sep 2016 #1
My fear is that it has become endemic, if not standard practice. Nitram Sep 2016 #2
 

Egnever

(21,506 posts)
1. I don't think there is any doubt that happens
Sat Sep 24, 2016, 11:10 AM
Sep 2016

In Mr. Scotts case after looking very closely at the video I don't think the plant theory is plausible.

Nitram

(22,813 posts)
2. My fear is that it has become endemic, if not standard practice.
Sat Sep 24, 2016, 10:39 PM
Sep 2016

Police culture may weed out anyone who is not down with the current unspoken rules that protect trigger-happy and violent policemen from being ratted out by their fellow cops.

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