Do cavity searches of random people EVER turn up contraband? It just seems like such a weird way for a non-incarcerated person to carry their drugs around. If you’re trying to smuggle something into prison, sure. But who just drives around town using their rectum as an extra pocket?
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Maybe they were on their way to a prison.
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Getting to know you
Getting to all about you . . .
Sorry, my rage bucket filled up, and triggered a different set of brain cells to fire. I’m sure it won’t happen again.
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The lawsuit already came. In December of last year. This is the court deciding to decline some charges…specifically anything against an individual instead of an organization. Only some of the charges against people stand in favor of more toothless police departments, government offices and the hospital. There are still a few against the cops, but they haven’t been decided yet.
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I’m sorry but aren’t you supposed to wait til the third traffic stop and drinks before that?
…man… that sounded weak but just…
Man i liked cyberpunk-dystopia when it was neuromancer and snow crash. Not… Wednesday.
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I was reading about the case and saw the patch the police use as a logo in New Castle…and it features the latin phrase “In hoc signo vinces”. I didn’t know what that meant, so I looked it up and it means “In this sign you will conquer.”
What kind of slogan is that for a police department? I think I have an idea of the kind of attitude that goes on there if this is the message they’re sending out. Perhaps this explains something about them. Yikes.
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Why do we deserve this again?
I’d say it’s more accurate: We don’t get the dystopia we want. We get the dystopia its creators want.
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To me that’s a larger concern than the police. I’ve given up on the police. But medical professionals? Wow, what kind of excuse could they have for participating in this very rapey crap?
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That might be an apt metaphor for the emotional damage such an experience could cause. We can poetically say that a victim is falsely imprisoned in a reality where they have to remember such violations by people who are supposed to prevent such violations from occurring and prosecute actual criminals who commit such violations rather than employing them.
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I can think of one:
“the police came in with their guns and told us to. We don’t have guns, and the police seem to like shooting people. So we decided not to put everyone in the hospital at risk of being shot by a gang of well-armed state-backed thugs and knuckled under.”
Seriously, the cops have guns, and they’re never punished for misusing them. Therefore the cops can get pretty much anything they want.
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Granted. But I’ve also seen my 5’3" wife chase the police out of her ICU. Most nurses and doctors I know are not afraid of the police in their own hospital.
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From the Declaration of Geneva:
I will not use my medical knowledge to violate human rights and civil liberties, even under threat;
Seems like we should be holding doctors and nurses to this standard.
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Sounds like we need more people like your wife to lay the beat down on braindead pigs who think they can ever ask hospital workers to probe people for contraband without any kind of warrant.
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I’ve told her before that the only thing that would be better than her would be two of her - and of course the inevitable death match which would follow because as she likes to say “I don’t do sharing”
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Good fucking question.
We “deserve” it just because we had the nerve to be born into this particular society of “covert” corruption at this particular point in history?
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Agreeing to undergo a cavity search, regular or not, on your terms, is still different from having one forced upon you while being illegally detained by people who might shoot you if you resist. So yeah, it wouldn’t be a big deal (comparatively) for the cops.
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And you know, my husband thought he got it bad when he got a ticket for both not using his turn indicators to change lanes and not having the turn indicator on long enough. Of course, it was Signal Hill, California, which played a part in the death of a Long Beach State football player–back when it had a football team, so he could have been arrested and later found hanged.
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Seems like they should be fired and possible have licenses yanked.
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So the lesson here is always, ALWAYS carry some contraband on you to avoid getting raped when the police ask you to hand it over.
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They should have called me. I would have told them the turn signal control arm was right on the steering column, and if they were searching for it where they were they were, they were wasting their time.
Unless they were just using the “no turn signal” thing as ruse to conduct an illegal search.
What am I saying, these are cops, and Sheriff Taylor didn’t even carry a gun. If we can’t trust the police, who can we trust. I apologize.
Great, now I can’t get the image of Andy Griffith putting on a surgical glove out of my mind.
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