06-24-2008, 09:42 AM
oh, and a lot of these drug task commandoes are indeed thugs. The practice of grabbing the pot in air raids, then taking the valuable buds to one location, and turning in the useless bulk of the plant to another, where the WEIGHT of the confiscation is all that counts, has been going on since these programs started.
My DH has personally been approached by UNIFORMED police officers and asked if he knew someone who wanted a quantity of buds that came from raids. This was on Maui, but the same in California, I don't doubt the same here.
I also had a friend who only spoke French, but understood English, whose case was dropped when the evidence disappeared, and who heard the officer in charge ream another officer a new one, saying, " I told you never to sell the evidence before the trial!"
Any time there is big money at stake, the custodians of confiscated goods are going to be tempted. This is an old old problem. We've legalized crews of bandits who enforce laws they don't believe in so they can break the law themselves. Sure there are officers who aren't part of that, but the corrupt ones know how to work around them.
In the process, many people with rural lifestyles who do not have any part in the process have their homes buzzed and their privacy invaded -- and for what real benefit?
Anyhow, I know there are those who can't believe that law enforcement harvests buds for their own benefit. But otherwise there would be no reason for them to raid gardens for MATURE plants or harvested drying. They find gardens with surveillance and then wait until the crop is viable and then raid it. They could still make the bust if the plants were not quite ready, but that rarely happens. (how to tell who is honest, I suppose, find the officers who raid immature gardens)
My DH has personally been approached by UNIFORMED police officers and asked if he knew someone who wanted a quantity of buds that came from raids. This was on Maui, but the same in California, I don't doubt the same here.
I also had a friend who only spoke French, but understood English, whose case was dropped when the evidence disappeared, and who heard the officer in charge ream another officer a new one, saying, " I told you never to sell the evidence before the trial!"
Any time there is big money at stake, the custodians of confiscated goods are going to be tempted. This is an old old problem. We've legalized crews of bandits who enforce laws they don't believe in so they can break the law themselves. Sure there are officers who aren't part of that, but the corrupt ones know how to work around them.
In the process, many people with rural lifestyles who do not have any part in the process have their homes buzzed and their privacy invaded -- and for what real benefit?
Anyhow, I know there are those who can't believe that law enforcement harvests buds for their own benefit. But otherwise there would be no reason for them to raid gardens for MATURE plants or harvested drying. They find gardens with surveillance and then wait until the crop is viable and then raid it. They could still make the bust if the plants were not quite ready, but that rarely happens. (how to tell who is honest, I suppose, find the officers who raid immature gardens)