The drug enforcement business - including private for-profit prisons - is big business. I'd say the draconian drug laws have more to do with that than anything else.

Wow, this is disturbing.

so wait, all of that was for his personal weed stash?!?!?

man, where's ice-t when you need him?





oh yeah, he's off playing cop now, too . . .
fuck.

cops use a tazer on a man threatening to jump off a bridge, and... he falls off the bridge.

Good job, guys. </sarcasm>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V4ZQvRn ... re=related

Well as long as he's got a criminal record I guess it's OK then.

TOTALLY ISOLATED INCIDENT.

Botched Paramilitary Police Raids: An Interactive Map
http://www.cato.org/raidmap/

this video is pretty nuts.

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?secti ... id=7433661

also, it's not super easy to show your hands in a split second when you're sitting on a motorcycle. you kinda need your hands for stuff. Or hear what you're being told when there's a siren blaring.

http://toledoblade.com/article/20100514 ... /COLUMNIST

this dude's recounting of what it was like to instantly know he was paralyzed with a heavy motorcycle stuck on him and leaking gas is pretty awful.

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar ... 02/5120338

The trial video made it sound like the cop feared the man was drawing a weapon. I realize this is an easy armchair call, but it looks to me a lot more like the guy was turning around just to see what was going on.

Now they're killing children.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/05/16 ... tml?hpt=T2

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_15542359?source=rss

A fifth deputy put Booker in a headlock just as the female deputy began shocking him with a Taser with encouragement from one of the deputies, who kept repeating, "Probe his ---," Maten said. He could hear the Taser crackle repeatedly.

Booker said, "'I can't breath . . .," Yedo heard. Then, Booker went limp.

Booker's wrists were handcuffed behind his back in an awkward position when the deputies picked him up, each holding an arm or a leg, and carried him stomach-down to a holding cell with an unbreakable glass door.

They set him down on his stomach, with much of his weight on one shoulder and his legs bent, Yedo said. They took the handcuffs off and without checking his pulse, the officers left him on the floor of the holding cell.

The deputies walked away high-fiving and laughing, Maten said. Several inmates were saying, " 'I can't believe they're doing this,' " Maten said.