Tag: law enforcement

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February 26, 2013
02/26/2013
CT Towns Pay Out Big for Deadly SWAT Drug Raid

CT Towns Pay Out Big for Deadly SWAT Drug Raid

Five Connecticut towns whose SWAT team killed an unarmed man during a 2008 drug raid have agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by...
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February 21, 2013
02/21/2013
Two Dead in Police Grow House Shoot-Out in Miami

Two Dead in Police Grow House Shoot-Out in Miami

013 Two people are dead and one man is under arrest after a Miami-Dade Police investigation into a possible marijuana grow house Tuesday evening turned into a...
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February 21, 2013
02/21/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.02.20)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.02.20)

013 A North Carolina narc gets canned, and so does a Florida patrol officer, and an Ohio evidence room supervisor gets busted after drugs walk away. Let’s...
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February 19, 2013
02/19/2013
Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Marijuana Leaf- Pulled Over for Decal

Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Marijuana Leaf- Pulled Over for Decal

An elderly Texas couple driving home was pulled over in the Memphis area, for no other reason than an Ohio State Buckeyes sticker that was confused with a marijuana leaf...
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February 19, 2013
02/19/2013
Discovery Channel Bets on Two New Shows About Pot Growers

Discovery Channel Bets on Two New Shows About Pot Growers

The Discovery Channel debuts a six-episode series, “Weed Country,” at 10 p.m. Wednesday and will replace it with “Pot Cops” in April. Both examine the marijuana trade in...
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February 18, 2013
02/18/2013
Why I Am Attending the National Unity Conference

Why I Am Attending the National Unity Conference

American’s for Safe Access (ASA) opened the eyes of this thirty-three year law enforcement veteran. Caught in the whirlpool of drug prohibition policy, prohibitionist law enforcement folks...
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February 14, 2013
02/14/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.02.13)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.02.13)

A major police corruption bust in the Atlanta metro area, an Alabama deputy keeps the goodies he got doing drug buys, and an Ohio officer cops to...
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February 7, 2013
02/07/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.02.06)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.02.06)

A Massachusetts cop had his own informal prescription drug take-back program, but that was pretty innocuous compared to some of this week’s other entries. Let’s get to...
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January 30, 2013
01/30/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.29)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.29)

Narcs gone bad, evidence gone missing, cops gone over to the other side, and another jailer in trouble. Just another week in the drug war. Let’s get...
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January 23, 2013
01/23/2013
Oklahoma Woman Seeks Medical Treatment, Is Jailed Instead, Dies

Oklahoma Woman Seeks Medical Treatment, Is Jailed Instead, Dies

A pregnant Oklahoma woman who went to a hospital seeking treatment for extreme pain was instead jailed after police found pain pills on her and died in...
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January 22, 2013
01/22/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.21)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.21)

There’s something fishy in a Virginia evidence room, a Louisiana deputy gets in trouble for peddling fake weed, three suburban Chicago cops were running a dirty racket,...
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January 21, 2013
01/21/2013
Orlando, Florida Man is Year’s Second Drug War Death

Orlando, Florida Man is Year’s Second Drug War Death

One of two men shot by Orlando police inside a home during a drug investigation Wednesday night died Thursday. Karvis Jabbar Gamble, 19, becomes the second person to...
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January 17, 2013
01/17/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.16)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.16)

Corrupt cops are headed to prison in Honolulu, Chicago, and Bridgeport, Connecticut, and one in Houston will be joining them soon. Let’s get to it: In Houston...
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January 16, 2013
01/16/2013
California Medical Pot Card Carrier Can Recover Seized Stash in Arizona

California Medical Pot Card Carrier Can Recover Seized Stash in Arizona

The Yuma County sheriff must return marijuana seized from a woman at a Border Patrol checkpoint because she has a medical card, an Arizona appeals court ruled....
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January 14, 2013
01/14/2013
Cool Cop Stories

Cool Cop Stories

With my recent decision to correct my attitude towards police and law enforcement, it seemed right to tell the cool cop stories that inspired the change in...
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January 14, 2013
01/14/2013
Medical Marijuana Advocates Hail San Diego Mayor’s Decision to Stop Crackdown on Dispensaries

Medical Marijuana Advocates Hail San Diego Mayor’s Decision to Stop Crackdown on Dispensaries

Advocates applauded the recent actions of San Diego Mayor Bob Filner in trying to put an end to the years-long crackdown on access to medical marijuana in...
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January 10, 2013
01/10/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.09)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.09)

Texas cop wanted cash to make a pot possession arrest go away, Hawaii cop had his own pot garden, Philly cop was peddling ‘roids, and then there’s...
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January 7, 2013
01/07/2013
Recreational MJ Sales in CO is Still Illegal – and Dangerous

Recreational MJ Sales in CO is Still Illegal – and Dangerous

Amendment 64 has already legalized possession and use of marijuana for all adults. Many people have gone further, assuming that selling marijuana is no longer going to...
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January 7, 2013
01/07/2013
Marijuana Dispensaries Sue Long Beach

Marijuana Dispensaries Sue Long Beach

Nine marijuana collectives claim in court that the Long Beach Police Department is using illegal, unconstitutional tactics to put them out of business. The nine collectives and...
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January 4, 2013
01/04/2013
In the Interest of Fairness Towards Police

In the Interest of Fairness Towards Police

I’m sure we’ve all heard horror stories of Weedists who’ve had bad run-ins with law enforcement. Whenever I read one of these stories, that anti-cop feeling always springs up...
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