Albuquerque police want ad: We need snitches 'Make some extra cash! Drug use and criminal record OK'

[DogPoundPup]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Albuquerque Police Department has turned to the want ads for snitches.

An ad this week in the alternative newspaper The Alibi asks "people who hang out with crooks" to do part-time work for the police.

It reads in part: "Make some extra cash! Drug use and criminal record OK."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27859436/?GT1=43001

[SpiralHawk]

1. REPUBLICON 'family values' strike again

Ptoooey

[sarcasmo]

2. It's an extension of Martial Law.

[amdezurik]

3. hey that worked in Iraq!

Just look at how many innocent people were turned-in for cash, why our contractors need to practice torture on somebody after all!

[old mark]

4. Cash for turning in drug dealers? Hell, I do it for free. Every chance I get.

If they were in my neighborhood, I'd shoot the motherfuckers myself.

mark

[Fumesucker]

5. You might be surprised at who "drug dealers" are...

I guarantee you have at least one in your neighborhood and probably more than that.

You sound like someone whose entire knowledge of "drug dealers" comes from the MSM.

Here's a clue, the MSM lies as much about "drugs" and "drug dealers" as it does everything else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIzRGHuJt_I

[Xithras]

7. Drug dealers should be outed as a danger to their neighborhood

Several years ago my sister had one of those "quiet and friendly" drug dealers living down the street from her. He "just sold pot" so people looked the other way. Until one day when a drug deal went bad, a buyer pulled a handgun and started shooting, and a little girl playing in her own backyard a street over was hit by shrapnel from one of the bullets (didn't kill her, thank goodness).

Drug dealers, because of the nature of their trade, are dangerous to be around. Even if the dealer is friendly, there is no telling what kind of trash they're brining in to buy.

I would turn my neighbors in for dealing in a heartbeat.

[Fumesucker]

11. I'm sure you would..

Glad you believe in freedom. :eyes:

[old mark]

16. Freedom to sell crack, meth, etc. NO! nt

[Xithras]

26. Freedom does not include criminal behavior.

And, irrespective of what caused it, there is no part of "freedom" that requires me to put my children in danger so that my neighbor can partake in illegal activity.

I'd turn in a drug dealer just like I'd turn in a burglar or a car thief. Their presence lowers the safety of my neighborhood.

I'd like to see drugs legalized so that everyone who wants them can grow their own. That would make the drugs worthless and take most of the crime out of it. Until that happens, I don't want it in my neighborhood.

Of course, I'm surrounded by freepers, so that's not gonna happen anyway.

[Fumesucker]

27. If the government can make a common weed illegal..

They can make *anything* illegal.

In a situation where anything can be made illegal then there are no rights.

[Uncle Joe]

23. Any potential resultant danger of being around a drug dealer is a symptom,

not the disease.

The disease is the illogical, insane, eternal and unjust "war against an inanimate object" which creates these conditions.

Turning what should be a medical, educational, privacy issue in to a criminal issue serving to benefit for profit prisons, big pharma corporate drug pushers and the truly corrupted powers that be which benefit from dividing and disenfranchising the American People.

[old mark]

15. FS: My knowledge comes from working in drug programs for several year.,

I worked with probationers and newly released prisoners as well as halfway houses. I met a lot of the drug users who were decent people, but the dealers are not.

Getting too close to you?

mark

[Fumesucker]

24. The great majority of drug dealers are for the war on drugs...

Sort of like you.

Why would they support legalization?

That would put them out of business.

[LanternWaste]

6. Me too-- cut down on the meth stench in the neighborhood...

Me too-- cut down on the meth stench in the neighborhood and make some cash. It's a win-win...

[Fumesucker]

8. Did it ever occur to you that someome might plant some drugs on your property

And then drop the dime on you?

Paying for snitches has worked so well in Afghanistan and Iraq, we get the right guilty person every time, eh?

Better hope you are on excellent terms with all your neighbors, people do some nasty things in neighborhood disputes sometimes.

[old mark]

17. That works both ways. pal. nt

[Fumesucker]

22. So not only will you kill...

You'll set someone up too..

Quite the little vigilante, eh?

[LanternWaste]

18. I am on excellent terms with my neighbors.

I am on excellent terms with my neighbors, as they are with me-- and I'm pretty sure they'd support me in this endeavor as I'd support them. Anyway-- the meth stench is a dead giveaway as to who's cooking meth as opposed to whoi's cooking mom's meatloaf....

Thanks ever so so much for your ever-so-sweet, forthright, obvious and sincere concern.

[Fumesucker]

25. So you're comfortable with a situation where it is ridiculously easy

For one person to see to it that someone they don't like serves a long prison term?

Because that is basically what you are supporting when you support paid snitches.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/us/27atlanta.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

Prosecutors Say Corruption in Atlanta Police Dept. Is Widespread

By SHAILA DEWAN and BRENDA GOODMAN
Published: April 27, 2007

Correction Appended

ATLANTA, April 26 — After the fatal police shooting of an elderly woman in a botched drug raid, the United States attorney here said Thursday that prosecutors were investigating a “culture of misconduct” in the Atlanta Police Department.

In court documents, prosecutors said Atlanta police officers regularly lied to obtain search warrants and fabricated documentation of drug purchases, as they had when they raided the home of the woman, Kathryn Johnston, in November, killing her in a hail of bullets.

Narcotics officers have admitted to planting marijuana in Ms. Johnston’s home after her death and submitting as evidence cocaine they falsely claimed had been bought at her house, according to the court filings.

[LanternWaste]

31. Yup. I also eat puppies and plan on blocking out the sun's rays...

Yup. I also eat puppies and plan on blocking out the sun's rays...

Sheesh... reading quite a bit more than is good for you into how I'd react to one specific, particular scenario. :eyes:

Bless your little heart...

[amdezurik]

28. hey the snitch does not need to plant the drugs

the pigs will do that for them, after they kill you and your family old mark...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. Anti-drug, pro-murder, eh?

Interesting.

[old mark]

14. drug dealers are murdrers.

Are you a dealer or just a customer?

mark

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

19. They're muredrererers?

"Are you a dealer or just a customer?"

I'm a guy who'd prefer a drug dealer next door over a a murder. Or some sorry jackass who fantasizes about being a murderer.

[ellisonz]

20. hahahahahahaahahahahahahhahaha

[anonymous171]

9. These threads always make me laugh.

DUers say that guns aren't neccessary because the police can protect you in an emergency. Then they turn around and say that the police should never ever be trusted and are always corrupt.

[Fumesucker]

10. Neither guns nor police corruption were mentioned in this thread..

What motivated you to post regarding guns and police corruption?

[anonymous171]

12. Police were mentioned in this thread.

Specifically how police can be untrustworthy and incompetent.

[Ikonoklast]

21. I'd turn them in for free

Would you let your neighbors run a 'chop shop' in his garage? What about having a no alcohol license after-hours joint in his rec room? Cook a little meth in the basement?

There are certain elements in society, namely criminals and those willing to tolerate criminal behavior, that I don't want anywhere near me, and my loved ones.

[Fumesucker]

29. The point is though that there are many things in our society which are illegal

And have no business being illegal in the first place.

It isn't by accident that the USA has the highest incarceration rate in the world, bar absolutely none.

[Ikonoklast]

30. The point is drug dealers attract an unsavory type of person

to a neighborhood. I don't want them here, and I'm fairly certain neither do any of my neighbors.

I don't care what type of drugs you use in your own home. That's your problem.

If you sell them in my neighborhood, then it becomes MY problem.

[Hubert Flottz]

32. Are you sure that wasn't a typo?