The Sheriff's Stash

tobala said:
I must say that one of the most obscene artifacts of the "drug war" is commission-based "law enforcement." If anything could contribute to abuse and corruption in law enforcement, this would be it.
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Definitely, and since this gives them incentive to try harder to make arrests - remember, they don't need convictions in order to seize property - and that only leads to cops using quasi-legal or blatant illegal tactics to make these arrests.
 
plutoniumboss said:
If they keep on track, soon ALL U.S. citizens are going to wonder which side they should be on in the War On Drugs®.
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im guessing u think that phrase will get big lol :P
 
its "crime enforcement without a soul" (pun on another big saying used in OD sometimes) Phrozen should get this if anybody
 
bingalpaws said:
if the cash stays in the department, there's a clear financial incentive for pursuing certain crimes above others. Why go after rapists when you can go after traffickers? Nevermind the plethora of crap people do to 'make the sale' when there's personal financial incentives - planting evidence, lying about suspicions/reasonable causes, etc etc. And before you tell me it's not personal, keep in mind the cash stays at most of these actual agencies. That directly influences the types of training, weaponry, vehicles, etc that they can use on their 24/7 job, so yes, there's a strong personal incentive to make drug busts over other (far more serious) crimes.

How on earth is it acceptable for the arresting officers/their departments/police orgs as a whole to keep this money? Remove the fucking financial incentives already, and take that money (when appropriate - taking john's car because he used it to pick up a hooker is laughable) and put it somewhere they could care less about, and you solve a lot of this specific problematic facet of the drug war.
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It is somewhere they could care less about, the office. :|

Perhaps if they put it somewhere the sheriffs didn't care about, like drug programs and rehabilitation for all types of crime, it may help this issue? I wouldn't be suprised at all if I found out they couldn't care less about helping criminals change their ways.
 
This reminds me of shit in other industries as well. I used to work in a hospital, state funded, and they would pick up the tab for "training" in exotic locales. Of course, they actually went to learn about new policies, techniques, etc. but it was still a bit wonky. I used to laugh that they would spend $3500 to send a couple of nurses to Vegas for 4 days....until I received a huge medical bill after my insurance refused to cover something they pre-approved!
 
ok so now we know where the money goes... where do all the confiscated drugs end up? :D
 
cops are worse than drug dealers in most states and in some case's they are the drug dealers or drug abuser's i have known many cops who take the drugs for them selves and also sell some

the drugs they seize are suppose to be destroyed by burning them

but as most of use know most end up back on the street
 
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