• manxu@piefed.social
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    6 hours ago

    Am I reading this wrong, or is the implication that the “top cop” arrested people for DUIs to steal their belongings?

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      4 hours ago

      Ding ding ding, article #6962 about USA police officers behaving like gang members

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        5 hours ago

        No, not really. Just a little surprised that the article doesn’t mention any reason why the laptop would be there, and you’d think a journalist would wonder. Like, “Wow there is a story here, let me look the other way!”

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    7 hours ago

    Interesting that the officers get overtime pay to appear in court for the DUI. The officer nearly tripled his salary by court appearances. They need a method to dock that pay if the defendant is innocent/or charges dropped.

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    7 hours ago

    Cops are always whining about how dangerous their jobs are and how they need hazard pay because criminals are targeting them, and then bring location-emitting devices to their personal homes so that the “criminals” know exactly where to find them and their families. Makes me think maybe they aren’t really “afraid for their lives” like they say literally constantly.