Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracking device from car • Hacker News Board

Re: Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracking device from car

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 24, 2019, 5:25 PM UTC

manigandham wrote: post #189

dkersten wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have no way of knowing that the police didn't plant the evidence to save face and justify the warrant. Shit like that's happened before. There are plenty of cases of people going to jail and being much, much later exonerated and there are cases of being framed by police. We don't know how many more people are rotting in jail who are completely innocent. I mean, sure, it might not be likely, but the point is, these…

That's beside the point. The parent comment was saying that being rightfully guilty is worse than being innocent and assumed guilty because they disagree with the severity of the crime. To me, being innocent yet treated as guilty is far worse, and in fact the US justice system holds that as a core principle.

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Re: Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracking device from car

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Post by logfromblammo » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 3:45 PM UTC

rosybox wrote: post #219

logfromblammo wrote: post #214

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No. My initial presumption is that the pipe they found with the tracker was actually taken out of the evidence room, from a previous drug case, and planted at the search site solely to justify a further search elsewhere on the property. The comparison would be to see if they were using the same piece of evidence for multiple cases. It probably would have been easier to just watch the bodycam and dashcam videos.

I imagine you can't just take a crack pipe from a previous case out of a police evidence room.

Imagine harder. Can you imagine a cop being worse at their job than everyone you currently work with? If people could not take things from evidence, evidence would not go missing. It happens less in larger departments that have more secure protocols for evidence handling, but in those cases, the stuff mainly gets stolen by evidence tech employees that know better how to cheat the system. It disappears just as surely as merchandise is stolen from Wal-Mart by its own employees.

Even if it was not evidence from another case, I don't think that new glass drug pipes are hard to obtain. After all, cocaine addicts that have smoked up everything else in their life can still get them. Cops have closer physical proximity to that lifestyle, and could pick up an abandoned pipe from one place, and later drop it where it would be more useful.

This type of misbehavior has been documented on bodycams, when the cop thought the recording device was on standby. Drop contraband, turn on bodycam, "find" contraband, arrest suspect for possession of contraband. Cops that cut corners to take down drug dealers--or other people whom they just know are guilty--think they are doing the right thing.

Re: Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracking device from car

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