But... But... But he is one of the good guys.

[CJCulpeper]

Everyone who was railroaded by this piece of rat filth should be given a Louisville Slugger and two swings (no head shots) to extract a little bit of revenge.

https://reason.com/2019/07/11/florid...nocent-people/

Oh and I bet ya they will plea bargain this down to a slap on the wrist. Throw the SOB into general population.

[free1954]

sweet jesus.

[bruce]

Glad he got caught! No use for such people! Hope those accused/convicted falsely are completely exonerated. Expect some law suits coming out of this. Sincerely. bruce.

[CJCulpeper]

Do the arrest entries get deleted from the Great Police State Database even though most of these folks had prior convictions and these people's convictions were vacated? Or do the cops still hold the record and play their stupid entrapment games such as "I see you were arrested for meth in 2017? and the reply is "Yes, but the cop framed me and the conviction was vacated and he was sent to jail."?

Does that particular arrest get wiped away?

[rayg]

Every profession has it's bad apples but one that is supposed to be enforcing the law and instead breaking it is the worst type.
I remember the old days when corrupt cops on the take were normal. With few exceptions, like this, it is not the normal case now. As Most departments do a good job of cleansing their departments of bad apples. Note, he was caught by his own agency. Corrupt cops are not good for any agency. Ray

[CJCulpeper]

I seem to recall an incident where a doctor pulled over a citizen for a broken tail light, the driver ran and then the doctor pulled a gun shot the fleeing driver dead. The doctor claimed his life was in danger. Then the doctor was caught on camera planting a taser near the body.

Oh wait. It wasn't a doctor. It was a cop in North Carolina. A cop is the only guy who can lie your way in to jail with almost no effort. The prime example is the guy in Florida.

I agree corrupt cops are not good for any agency. I can see the time when cops will stop being "Law Enforcement" and start be Peace Officers where they stop jacking fellow citizens up for trivial stuff and only get involved to keep the peace.

[rayg]

That was a childish doctor comment in regard to my post that all professions have bad apples. How old are you anyway. And just a question, what laws are trivial stuff? Makes me Wonder how many times you have you been arrested for just "trivial" stuff, Lol, Ray

[CJCulpeper]

From the original article.

... Things turned out worse for some of Wester's other victims, such as Benjamin Bowling. In October 2017, Bowling and a woman were driving to a store to buy diapers when Wester pulled them over for allegedly having inoperable tag lights and swerving over the center line. ...

Every State plate in the Union and the District and the Territories are reflectorized and license plate light do nothing to illuminate the plates and are not safety lighting by any reasonable persons thinking.

Or the time I was traveling through Maryland where a harelip deputy pulled me and a buddy over because "he could not see if I was wearing a seatbelt". It was late November, around 2030L, in an extended cab truck with lightly tinted factory windows and he and his side kick were way behind me. When this clod came to the window and told me that I pulled my belt from my chest and asked what this (the seat belt) was. He snaped back that he was not going to argue with me.

The only difference from Wester is this idiot didn't get the chance to plant drugs or was too stupid to know how.

"That was a childish doctor comment in regard to my post that all professions have bad apples. ..." Too bad. Truth hurts

[barretcreek]

My god daughter's husband was with the highway patrol briefly; couldn't stand it and went to being a street cop. The problem was the non-existent 'quota'. The problem, as I understand it is Washington can't figure out the difference between making busts, DUI arrests, speeding tickets and the actual problems all those data points are supposed to be indicative of solving. No tickets, arrests, DUI convictions, no data therefore no money from Uncle. Doesn't matter if the fatality/collision/damage numbers don't change stop twice as many people to make us look good. Policing by numbers; the exact opposite of the 'broken windows' approach.
I would be very surprised to learn of a jurisdiction which tracks the accident rate by individual officer, but every LE I know says the department knows who brings in the money.

[rayg]

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Your Quote, Too bad. Truth hurts,

Yes truth hurts, and I'm sure everyone would agree that this cop was a bad apple.
but I say again, and which which you chose to ignore, that all professionals have their own bad apples. Again your obvious anti police posts make me wonder how many times you have you been arrested in order to hate the police so much. Your quote "harelip deputy, this clod", about the officer who stopped you, speaks volumes about you. .

[CJCulpeper]

Is it a requirement of being arrested to despise the coruption and evil that our fellow citizens under the guise of government can do to us? I think it is not. One does not have to be arrested to see clearly that which is terribly wrong. I will state for a second time in this forum my position about cops of any flavor.

I am a corrupt cop hater. Full stop.

If the so-called good ones do nothing to root out the corrupt ones then they are silent conspirators to the corruption and need to be weeded out, too. I applaud the truely honest ones. The ones who are worried about important crimes and not some minute burden like not using a turn signal on a right turn.

Last time I checked the Declaration of Independence, which I did on Independance Day this year, it stated we create government "to secure these rights". We do not create government to infringe upon our lives to the tiniest detail.

It is irrelevent about other professions. I do not recall any doctor, or teacher or , gasp, lawyer pulling over a traveller and demanding them to show "their papers". Or how any doctor, or teacher or , gasp, lawyer pulling a gun at a traffic stop and shooting a traveller because they feared for their lives aganist the un-armed traveller. Or shooting a woman through a closed door on a mountain ridge. Or an old woman being attacked and brutalized when she was asked if she had any guns in her home.

Your quote "harelip deputy, this clod", about the officer who stopped you, speaks volumes about you. . Yes. It speaks I am an American and I can say any thing I want.