Doesn't surprise me at all. Seems like sometimes police are more than happy to write a ticket even if they know nothing is "actually" being violated. That's what happens when we put a minimum number of tickets required by police per month. If they see running behind, they often have to actively look for laws being broken.
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And then it falls on the "citizen" to prove their innocence.
Don't get me started on civil asset forfeiture. That's become a huge source of revenue for law enforcement at every level.
Is that when they can steal your money if. Ou can't prove why you have it? For example walking around with 10k cash an officer could literally steal that from you if you can't offer a legal reason for having it.
Yes, and good luck trying to get it back.
It was a few years ago, maybe even decades, but at one point, virtually every US bill in circulation tested positive for some kind of illegal drug residue. Not to mention the fact that the infallible crime labs you see on TV aren't so infallible (or always honest) in real life.
I'd say fallible to begin with and then compounding by refusing to admit failure
and made worse by insisting they're correct.
Take bite mark "science" for instance. Not sure where it was but within the last 6-9 months there was a crime lab "scientist" exposed as a complete fraud, didn't even have the credentials they claimed. Literally thousands of cases where their "expert" testimony was used to convict.
Oops.
what makes those cases horrible on top of prosecution of the innocent, is that the guilty who were convicted based on the dishonesty of those labs may be released.
what is the lab going to say?
we were only wrong in the one cases
aint nobody going to buy that
not to mention the civil suits against the cities.
I'm mostly worried that it's going to affect the pensions of those hard working civil servants.