i figure if nobody’s going to question his warrants, nobody’s going to question his facebook posts…
really makes me wonder what kind of grudges they’ve been using the police force for over the years that never made national news
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I think the situation in most places in the USA is far worse than in Canada, but am pointing out that a national police force is also far from a panacea. In the example of Canada you have a force with a history not unlike the Catholic Church in terms of moving troublemakers around and covering it up.
Just like our police forces in the USA so often do.
I have a different view of the word “triggered”; just look at how I feel compelled to write back even though I don’t think we actually have terribly different ideas on this subject. Call it pushing buttons then, or whatever.
The victim asks that we
Very telling who is being referred to as ‘the victim’ here. It certainly isn’t the victims of the raid…
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“insufficient evidence”
… oopsie doopsie 
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That is how we do it in Australia.
Federal police deal with international crime, and State and Territory police have stations in towns and suburbs but are all under the same command.
That is more than enough policing IMHO.
The thought of having a 3rd level of police with power over small towns, is frankly horrifying.
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You say that but every larger news org is reporting on this.
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That too, tho I wasn’t referring to a union for the employees, we all understand the value of those.
I was referring to a union of news orgs to protect the paper itself from this kind of intimidation. So really we need two unions in this field: One to protect the employees from unfair labor practices, and one to protect journalism itself from censorship.
And they shouldn’t be the same union for a fairly obvious reason: A corrupt labor union could suppress a story via the threat of a strike.
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we have many more than 3. 
as some one pointed out above there’s both city cops, and county sheriffs ( and whatever the heck the texas rangers are ) - primary school cops are sometimes under the city cops and sometimes not. meanwhile campus police and transit cops are often their own separate things.
and then the feds have multiple agencies like the fbi, atf, and the worst of the worst: cbp and ice. ice likes to pose as local police when arresting people they think they might be able to deport.
( i think what we really need is more training/s )
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In the first arrest, [Judge] Viar “was charged and entered a diversion agreement — which was extended six months because she refused to get an alcohol and drug evaluation and stopped communicating with her lawyer,” according to the Eagle.
She was arrested again months later, this time in her home county.
“Officials say she was driving Morris County Magistrate Judge Thomas Ball’s vehicle, when she ran off the road and hit a shed near the Council Grove football field,” TV station WIBW reported in 2012, adding that at the time, the prosecutor was on the Morris County Anti-Drug Task Force.
“She was charged with DUI, reckless driving and refusal to take a preliminary breathalyzer,” the Emporia Gazette reported at the time.
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More evidence of the Reality Writers’ Strike. The only thing that would have been more on-the-nose would have been if she had gone off the road and hit an anti-drunk driving billboard. Which then collapsed on top of the car like in a National Lampoon movie.
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“… and remember to always shout STOP RESISTING STOP RESISTING as you beat the suspect”
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