I don’t even want to go into the things that prosecutors get away with

I was pulled over one time in Garden Valley for doing 45 in a 35 and had drank ONE Coors Original and hour and a half earlier as I pulled off my hiking boots after a hard backpack. I had deposited the empty bottle in the passenger seat beside me.

As you might expect, the officer “smelled alcohol”, saw the beer bottle, and so forth. An Idaho Trooper was summoned by the local coppers so I could be tag teamed. I refused to perform the “sobriety” tests as I was hungry, exhausted, it was 11:00 pm, I just wanted to get home and get to bed, and I do not care for stupid cops.

So, I was arrested, handcuffed, and driven to Horseshoe Bend by two female cops, to be given the breathalyzer.

In Horseshoe Bend, I took the breathalyzer, which registered “NIL”, not once, not twice, but thrice!!

Then, back to my car in Garden Valley, which the cops had threatened to impound.

On the way, the Idaho State Trooper called the lady coppers to inquire about the results of the breathalyzer. When informed that the results were “NIL”, he replied, “there is something wrong with his eyes”!!!

I will repeat: I do not care for stupid cops!!!

One issue is that law enforcement, including the prosecutors, and many in the judicial community, believe that “probable cause” is a legal concept that is only limited by the imagination of the official seeking to establish such “probable cause”.

To further this concept, “probable cause” always exists in the officer’s or prosecutor’s mind, and he or she merely needs to be creative to establish such cause. For example, “I stopped you because you failed to signal your turn”, or “you were varying your speed excessively”, or “you crossed the centerline”, or “I saw marijuana smoke coming out of your car window, and I know marijuana smoke when I see it”, and so forth.

Further, we all know that cops, prosecutors, court officials, judges, and all the rest all tag team together to make this little gig work for them, and not for the law abiding citizens.

Would anyone care to challenge me on this?

Further, if one is ever able to win a case and successfully establish that his civil and constitutional rights were violated regarding a stop, an arrest, a prosecution, jailing, and so forth without probable cause, in most cases, there is relatively downside for the law enforcement officials, prosecutors, or others involved. The damages in most cases are not terribly substantial, there is a bit of wristslapping, and that is usually the end of it.

So, the system is very asymmetrical in that the cops and so forth can violate your rights, waste your valuable time, embarrass and humiliate you, cost you significant time and money, and so forth, but there is not a lot you can do to them in most cases.

So, they continue to do what they do. Unless laws are changed, it will continue.

Look up what happened to the honest jailer in Elmore Co. Cop bounced woman’s head off a cement wall… honest cop tells on him, honest cop fired.

We got a wild pig problem in this country and it ain’t the kind that eats my crops.

Seems like i read that somewhere on this site. Maybe standards are applied slightly differently depending on age, gender and affiliation. Or maybe just plain old personal feelings play a major role in EVERYONE”S opinions.

The American police state is a very profitable business run by the a$$holes we repeatedly elect. It’s just another system of taxation. Here’s the proof:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Prisoner_population_rate_world_map.png

And I am sorry folks that is exactly what this cops was acting like.

Are the cops ignoring the people going 85, and instead concentrating on the people going LESS than the speed limit? Based on my observation, that is another behavior they could “profile” if potheads are the primary law-enforcement target these days.