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Edited on Sun Apr-29-07 02:39 PM by Kutjara
"introduction of contraband to a detention facility." Er...seems like it was the cops who did the introducing, seeing as how they took her to the facility. I'm sure she had no intention of ending up in a detention facility that day, nor to "introduce" any of her precious cocaine to it.
I reminds me of the pathetic "car chases" we see on TV here in L. A. nearly every day. Some cretin drives around at 30 mph, waving at the cameras in the news choppers, basking in their 15 minutes, while about 90% of the L. A. police force is mobilized to catch them. Two hours of the most boring "action" ever broadcast later (accompanied by the inevitable endless inane newsmodel chatter), the miscreant either runs out of gas or the car they're driving falls apart, and they give up, often simply lying down and "assuming the position" after one final dramatic flourish at the cameras.
Then fifty cops rush in like they've taken down Osama himself and proceed to dogpile the guy into the dust. We later hear that he's been charged with about fifty offenses. If he pinged another car it's criminal damage, destruction of personal property in the commisson of a felony, and criminal action entailing economic loss. If there was a person in the car it's all the previous offenses plus assault with a deadly weapon, attempted murder and intent to cause grevious harm. Evading the police seems to break about ten laws all on its own: there's intentional evadement, evading intentionitude, elusion, evasionary elusion, elusionary evasiveness, making an officer of the law cry, spilling a peace officer's coffee, forcing an officer to waddle over and make an arrest...the list goes on, and on. Add all the traffic offenses the perp committed, and he'll end up with about 100 charges, all of which have to be waded through by some court or other.
What's the matter, aren't car theft, assault and property damage enough these days? Why the overkill? It's like the orange jumpsuit and full-body shackels aren't sufficiently serious anymore. They also have to make it look like everyone is a major felon to be sure of getting a conviction: "look, Martha, he's facing twenty charges. He MUST be guilty of at least some of them)."
Or maybe the cops have to justify devoting such an enormous amount of time and resources to chasing these clowns. Only a textbook-full of charges would legitimize such an otherwise rediculous deployment of force.
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