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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDurham police chief tells officers to stop lying about nonexistent 911 calls to search houses
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/14/durham-police-chief-tells-officers-to-stop-lying-about-nonexistent-911-calls-to-search-houses/The Durham, North Carolina, police department last month officially banned a possibly illegal tactic used by officers to gain entry to homes for searches.
Several officers lied about nonexistent 911 calls to convince residents to consent to searches of their homes, according to testimony May 27 by a Durham police officer in a marijuana possession case.
The officers targeted homes where individuals with outstanding warrants were believed to be living, reported Indy Week.
Police then told residents that dispatchers had received a 911 call from their address although no such calls had been made.
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IronGate
(2,186 posts)Good for the Chief to ban this practice, but this is just another case of police misconduct that seems to be rearing it's ugly head day after day after day.....................
CincyDem
(6,378 posts)...I'm sure the cops referencing fake 911 calls file it under "ends justify means" as a tactic. The bad guys are on the other side of the door and it's our responsibility to get 'em. I'm not defending them at all but I'm convinced they don't even consider the possibiity that they might play a role in creating the mistrust that exists.
IronGate
(2,186 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)calls were placed by occupants of the homes in the situations addressed. The cops have done a lot recently to create mistrust in communities of all sizes. We have a very small farming community that got one of those big armored vehicles (MRsomethinorothers) for free from the government recently to "protect its officers." They have had one shootout in over a century and they are making it sound like they are in a pitched battle with their citizens. The think cost thousands of dollars to drive to the community from the military base some distance away and it only gets 5 miles per gallon of gas. Why does this departmetn need military equipment to police a village of farmers in middle of Iowa? I have a real problem with the militarization of police forces throughout the nation and the siege mentality some of them have adopted.
frylock
(34,825 posts)how is this not an absolutely illegal tactic?
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)And then getting any evidence of any other wrongdoing collected under false pretenses by LEO thrown out of court as illegally obtained evidence.
Those must be some fairly ignorant of the law police officers if they thought they could get away with that for very long, all they did was taint any investigation they might have done.