Truly wow. Is anyone really surprised though? What's the quote I'm looking for again...

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely

It's becoming less and less arguable that our police force members are trustworthy, positively contributing citizens. How embarrassing to those decent officers who don't steal and resell drugs or rape women. (I'm sure at least a few must exist somewhere)

They, judges, call it 'Testilying' and are powerless... so they say... to do anything about it!

'Testilying' has become so common in the halls of justice that the exception has become the rule... and judges lament not being able to arrest the trend... all is fair in war... i guess.

Police, like politicians, 'bear false witness' routinely... it is a very effective form of coercion and control.

I used to wear a badge and I wore it with honor, never, ever violating the sacred oath I took each time while others used it as a passport to gain freebies, intimidate citizens and engage in conduct that was either questionable or downright criminal. Of course I was despised for my behavior and beliefs. That is why to this day I abhor those cops that violate their fiduciary capacity and they should be dealt with to the maximum extent of the law. An old adage but if you can't trust the police, who can you trust?

For all the cops that are honest enough to admit to their crimes, there's a whole line of crooks above them in their chain of command that are just a crooked and usually give the impression that being less than honest once in a while is acceptable. After all, let the perfect people (Judges & Lawyers) prosecute and police organizations will cover up the rest if possible when appropriate. Fast as Fast can be you can't catch the cops unless they admit to their crimes. The toughest gang I know has the government's approval seal stamped on everything it does. I can't stand dishonesty in police work, hence, I'm retired.

Public resistance was fierce:

HB09-1238 if passed, would have been a Forfeiture Field Day for Colorado Sheriffs. Police no longer wanted to wait for a criminal conviction to forfeit someone’s property, a requirement in Colorado.

Sheriffs wanted asset forfeiture bill HB09-1238 to repeal the “conviction first” requirement and to enact the low standard of civil evidence to forfeit property—“A Preponderance of Evidence”, little more than hearsay. HB09-1238 would have repealed police having to file an-annual asset forfeiture report with the department of local affairs—blocking public view what assets were seized by police.

HB09-1238 would have opened the door for police to target business and homeowners for Civil Asset Forfeiture in “poor communities” where crime rates are higher. Poor neighborhoods, schools and community services dependent on property taxes might have been economically impacted by dropping real estate values, the result of multifamily and other residential investors being frightened away by the HB09-1238 “no conviction needed” to forfeit property law.

Colorado’s HB09 civil asset forfeiture law could have hit the rich. Expensive Colorado resort properties used by occupants for illegal purposes—even if unbeknownst to the owner, could be civilly forfeited on the basis an owner “had reason to know” of lawbreaking activities. For example a parent “had reason to know” their teenager staying at the Colorado vacation house might get into trouble—again. Under HB09-1238 no one would need to be convicted of a crime for police to civilly forfeit a vacation owner’s property.

Had this bill passed, it is foreseeable less people would want to purchase a Colorado vacation home if they intended to rent it: property management companies might have been vulnerable to lawsuits from property owners losing rented homes to civil asset forfeiture.

Realistically it is not possible 100% of the time for owners to stop patrons and tenants breaking laws at their e.g., rented home, apartment building, restaurant, or motel. Federal Civil Asset Forfeiture requires a lower standard of evidence—than criminal evidence.“ a Preponderance of Civil Evidence.” Some states may require “Clear and Convincing Evidence.”

Civil asset forfeiture does not require that anyone be charged with a crime: government can use as civil evidence to forfeit a real property, that the owner reported to police their tenant was dealing drugs to show the owner—had prior knowledge. There are over 200 U.S. laws and violations that can make assets subject to civil asset forfeiture. For example a misrepresentation on a federally insured mortgage loan application can make your home—forever subject to federal civil asset forfeiture i.e., the five-year statue of limitations begins to run from the date a federal agency discovers the misrepresentation on a loan application.

To help protect Americans from continuing police forfeiture abuse, Congress should pass legislation that raises the standard of evidence U.S. Government uses for Civil Asset Forfeiture from a mere “Preponderance of Evidence”, to “Clear and Convincing Evidence. All states should require someone must first be convicted of a crime before their property can be forfeited.

Outrageously Colorado HB09-1238 would have prevented—a court—staying a “Civil Asset Forfeiture Proceeding” until a criminal trial related to the owner’s seized property was finished.

Colorado Citizens need to be Alert to stop the next “police asset forfeiture bill.”

HB1238_C.001 NOT AMENDED
HOUSE COMMITTEE OF REFERENCE REPORT
_______________________________ March 23, 2009
Chairman of Committee Date
Committee on Judiciary.
After consideration on the merits, the Committee recommends the
following:
HB09-1238 be postponed indefinitely.

Kill these fucking police.

Each day it becomes more difficult to distinguish the activities of increasing corrupt U.S. police from the drug-gangs they are suppose to arrest. Both rob, steal and threaten Citizens. I am inclined to believe police are now more dangerous than foreign drug-cartels and their U.S. associates. Cartel associates in the U.S. generally threaten and kill their own or the illegal-drug competition. U.S. corrupt police will falsify evidence and perjure testimony against most anyone just to get a conviction. That is more frightening for Americans than illegal drugs being sold. Police like criminals on probation, should be drug-tested every nine-days. At least then, Citizens can be more sure addicts are not wearing badges on the street.

According to a recent ABC news report the FBI says corrupt public officials are on the rise due to the economic stimulus package. The FBI is stinging the ones that they know about; I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but it's everywher in this country.

Inasmuch as I HATE snitches, here's the real skinny: The FBI WANTS to know when corruption is occuring; and the Federal jude REALLY WANTS TO KNOW WHEN CORRUPTION IS OCCURING.

So it's up to you citizen, compromise your principles and snitch over liars, cheats and thieves or let the sociopaths and psychopaths destroy you. NO ONE is indispensible in case of emergency, anyway.

then the problem spills over to everyone. I live in a small community with a local police force. A friend of mine recently had an officer pull a gun on him because he got out of his car during a traffic stop. There is absolutely NO reason for officers to be pulling a gun on a citizen for any reason until an actual threat exists. My friend was driving his truck two blocks from his house at the time, about 4 blocks from the police station. When the police feel it necessary to draw a weapon when making a routine traffic stop, in this case failure to signal a turn, their paranoia has grown to the point of making them more dangerous to society than any actual criminals that may exist in our town. My friend was literally a sneeze away from getting blown away by this 'trained' professional. My experience with firearms is that you don't point one at anything or anyone unless you plan on killing it or them. I guess the same doesn't hold true for the police.

In my lifetime I have observed absolutely nothing about the behavior of the police that makes me in any way respect or trust them. They are all about getting over on the system, and protecting each other from the same laws they enforce vigorously on the population at large. Another friend of mine recently was arrested for DUI. Of course he had to pay to take 'alcohol awareness' classes as part of his 'punishment'. During his class, he inquired of the instructor as to how many police officers had ever attended the classes, to which the answer was a very predictable 'none'. It is a fact that police officers do drink and drive at just about the same rate as the rest of the population, they just don't seem to ever get caught or punished. How strange is that?

The only way our country will truly be 'free' is when the same laws are enforced equally for all. The system we have now is divisive and unjust.

President Abraham Lincoln (December 1840):
"Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control mans' appetite through legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not even crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our Government was founded"

All YOU BABIES THAT ARE WHINING ABOUT POIICE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER PROBABLY COULDN'T QUALIFY FOR A POLICE JOB IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDED ON IT. SOUR GRAPES IN MOST CASES AS I CAN SEE FROM MOST OF THESE POSTS. AND IGNORANT IDIOTS TOO.

DO ANY OF YOU WATCH THE POLICE SHOW COPS? OR OTHER REALITY POLICE SHOWS. THESE POLICE ARE CONSTANTLY IN A STATE OF GRAVE DANGER BY CONSTANTLY HAVING TO CONFRONT DRUG CRAZED, (BOTH UNARMED AND ARMED) INDIVIDUALS, THAT WOULD KILL YOU, IF THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD GET AWAY WITH IT, EVEN JUST FOR A FEW BUCKS.

ARE THERE BAD COPS? YES. MAYBE 3%. ARE THERE USELESS COPS HELL YEA! PLENTY. BUT EVEN THE USELESS ONES ARE A TARGET OUT THERE WITH THEIR UNIFORMS ON. MOST LIKLEY ALL THE NEGATIVE POSTORS HERE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, OR HAVE RELATIVES DOING TIME, OR ARE POTHEADS AND ARE JUST PISSED OFF THAT THEIR FAMILIES ARE TRASH. AND EVEN MORE SO THAT THE POT THAT THEY LOVE SO MUCH IS ILLEGAL.

WHY IS A PLANT THAT GROWS NATURAL FROM THE EARTH ILLEGAL,,BECAUSE LAW ENFORCEMENT CAN MAKE LOTS OF MONEY ON IT, T.H.C. IS HARMLESS AND ACCORDING TO THE SCIENTISTS AT U.C.L.A IT HELPS CREATE NEW BRAIN-CELLS ,BUT YOU WILL NEVER HERE MUCH ABOUT THAT,BECAUSE WE LIVE IN A BRAIN-WASH WORLD--------REMEMBER 911, WELL 110 STORY SKY-SCRAPERS CAN-NOT HIT THE GROUND AT FREE-FALL SPEED,WHICH WAS 10.8 SEC, THE GOES AGAINST ALL LAWS OF PHYSICS. ( SO ONCE AGAIN YOUR GOVERNMENT,AND LAW ENFORCEMENT ARE CORUPT) AND POT IS ILLEGAL BECAUSE IT CREATES REVENUE***********BROUGHT TO YOU BY YOUR( LICENSE TO STEEL-LAW ENFORCEMENT)

WHO OWNES YOUR BODY?
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• Personal Defense
• It is above question that each individual holds the unalienable right to completely own and manage his or her body. No one is more qualified than you to manage your body responsibly and with dignity. The silly assumption that government personnel, who make as many mistakes as everyone else, can successfully manage their bodies AND yours shows the unmatched ignorance of government officials, especially judges and prosecutors.
• Constitutional Defense
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• Jury Defense
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• The last peaceful defense of our liberties is the jury. Writers of our Constitution understood that power always corrupts. The people must retain, understand and use all the processes to defend themselves from the greatest threat to liberty: one’s own government. Informed grand jurors and trial jurors can protect you from bad government laws.
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• JURY DEFENSE OF YOUR BODY
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• If you want to defend an individual’s ownership of his or her body, you must first get on the jury. During jury selection, lawyers and judges try to remove informed people from juries. Power-corrupted lawyers and judges depend on seating jurors who will do whatever they are told by government, even in violation of good conscience, reasoning, common sense and constitutional law.
• When called for jury duty and questioned about your understanding of the law or issues, consider stating that you do not keep track of political issues, and that you can apply the law as instructed by the court. If asked, suggest that you do not remember if you belong to any particular organizations because you get too many junk mail organizational solicitations. Imply an impartial attitude.
• You may be the only informed person on the jury. The judge’s instructions and oaths to the jurors are designed to fool jurors and protect the raw power of judges. Despite their official-sounding nature, these instructions to jurors cannot be legally binding, or there would be no need for the authority of independently-thinking jurors.
• You hold the absolute right to vote your conscience. If the accused did not identifiably damage an actual person, you can find him or her not guilty. Regardless of other jurors, you cannot be forced to change your verdict. You can state that the government prosecutor did not prove the government case. Or you can state no reason for your verdict, as is your right.
• THE INDIVIDUAL JURIOR: THE LAST PEACEFUL DEFENSE OR YOUR RIGHTS AGAINST GOVERNMENT POWER
• Your body and minds right of: expressions thoughts possessions medicines recreation and work
• Government judges and prosecutors crave raw power beyond the legal limit to their authority. That power can only exist if the person brought before the court is deceived by process into surrendering ownership of his or her body, and responsibility for individual decisions about that body, to government and the courts. Informed jurors, who do not seek any power, can defend the right of individual ownership of the body for everyone, equally. Jurors can refuse to convict if the government’s case is based on the concept of government owning an individual’s body, or if the government judges or prosecutors pretend to have any right to make or enforce any decisions about an individual’s body.
• WHO OWNS YOUR BODY?
• “The right of the people to be secure in their persons ... against unreasonable searches and
seizures shall not be violated ...”
• The human right that controls all other rights is the absolute ownership and management of one’s own body. Without complete ownership of your body, you cannot hold rights.
• Throughout history, kings and dictators claimed ownership of everyone’s body as a way to control all people and their actions. The U.S. Constitution reversed that flawed form of government. But now, government again claims the power of kings, seizing ownership of your body. Their actions, rather than their lies, prove that the government holds no compassion or respect for you. To government, your body is merely a working device it owns, to be taxed.
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• The Jury is your defense.
WE THE PEOPLE NEED TO GET INFORMED OUR GOVERNMENT IS PASSING LAWS THAT ARE UNCONSTATUTIONAL WE THE PEOPLE CAN STOP THIS…
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See and know the truth, and the mayor runs the police in Mckeesport and is part of the problem trying to be voted into Senator Sean Logans office! It's all corrupted!

http://www.topix.com/forum/city/mckeesport-pa/TO9EE897I79HTB23V

Then read: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_692539.html