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Re:$2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using ... by ceejayoz on Saturday October 26, 2019 @12:09PM (#21364497)
Yup. A particularly egregious case:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190909/12232742945/ninth...

The Ninth Circuit:

"We recognize that the allegation of any theft by police officers - most certainly the theft of over $225,000 - is deeply disturbing. Whether that conduct violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures, however, would not "be 'clear to a reasonable officer.'""

Note: Theft! Not asset forfeiture, but actual theft!

Re:$2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using ... by pytester on Saturday October 26, 2019 @01:13PM (#21364887)
It gets worse than stealing:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/06/witness-in-a...

"authorities have not identified a suspect or determined a motive."

Internal affairs clearly isn't a thing in the US. Or, if it is, it's a thing that doesn't work, coz when the witness of somebody getting murdered by a cop gets murdered in suspicious circumstances then it's not all that hard to identify a motive.

Re:$2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using ... by vageli on Saturday October 26, 2019 @01:08PM (#21364849)
> Yup. A particularly egregious case:

> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190909/12232742945/ninth....

> The Ninth Circuit:

> "We recognize that the allegation of any theft by police officers - most certainly the theft of over $225,000 - is deeply disturbing. Whether that conduct violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures, however, would not "be 'clear to a reasonable officer.'""

Ignorance of the law is no defense...oh wait.