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Re:Stop-And-Seize Turns Police into Self-Funding Gangs by rayiner on Friday November 13, 2015 @01:30PM (#10561434)
> In practice, you have small towns that can be bankrupted by a good-size suit, which is probably not a good outcome.

It's an excellent outcome. Particularly in small towns, the police strongly reflect the attitude of the people.

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Re:Stop-And-Seize Turns Police into Self-Funding Gangs by __jal on Friday November 13, 2015 @01:46PM (#10561581)
I went to high school in a southern town U.S. town that then had a population of about 2000. I can assure you that police behavior there strongly reflected the attitudes of a couple wealthy families in the town, not the ~1900 other folks.
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