• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    I lived in a small town, and the cops were convinced that people were selling drugs at the Burger King.

    So they had one of the new cops go undercover there for three months, and all they managed to get was some idiots who had a gram of weed (in a medical state) and five vicodin pills. The judge threw it out and warned the town about wasting the court’s time.

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        9 months ago

        He knew he had a lot bigger fish to fry than two kids who stole drugs from their grandmother to get their coworker to stop bothering them about it.

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            9 months ago

            From what I’ve seen, most judges are pretty straightforward with that shit. A couple are annoying about it, but it’s mostly the police force that pulls shit like that, and sometimes the prosecution as well.

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              9 months ago

              Something about the police strikes me as odd. If a judge can stay uncorrupted by power, why cant police? Assuming that this is the reason for their actions.

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                9 months ago

                The problem isn’t straight-out corruption.

                It’s wonky incentivation.

                Judges that are not measured by how many people they send to jail will always be, on average, less trigger-happy than cops who are.

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                8 months ago

                a judge can stay uncorrupted by power

                funniest joke of all time in my countries they released terrorist to satisfy radical political parties