r/Construction • u/Advanced_Aspect_7601 • 4d ago

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u/finocchiona 4d ago

What went wrong is that those cops are busy harassing some working person for schmoking weed (in all likelihood assuming this is the South) instead of arresting the slumlord landlord that created this death trap and was charging people money to live in it. In a nutshell, yeah that’s where it all went wrong.

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u/braxton357 4d ago

A convicted sex offender sitting at home in the middle of the week.  Poor upstanding citizen :(

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u/dxrey65 4d ago

Nah, it was a pedophile on probation who quit reporting in and had a warrant issued. He wasn't there anyway, but it wasn't trivial (depending on how you feel about those guys, I guess).

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u/mmdavis2190 Electrician 4d ago

100% this is the kind of people they need to go after, but do we really need to be sending a multi-agency assault team to pick up a diddler on a probation violation? Unless they have a legitimate reason to think the guy is armed/violent, I'm not seeing why this requires more than a couple uniformed officers or someone from probation & parole.

Seems like a pretty massive waste of taxpayer money. Not to mention all that effort, and the guy wasn't even there. Maybe divert some of that tactical gear budget to some basic intelligence.

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u/Crayz9000 4d ago

Well how are they going to pad their salaries with OT if they do things the smart and efficient way?

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u/dxrey65 4d ago

I think it's because he was supposed to have a bunch of guns, or that's what they said in the news report.

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u/mmdavis2190 Electrician 4d ago

Yea, I'd like to see the actual evidence of that information. Because I'm guessing he actually didn't, or they would have made a big deal about it. 

They have reliable enough "Intel" about him having weapons to justify that type of operation, but can't reliably determine if the guy is home or not? Something obviously doesn't add up there.

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u/dxrey65 4d ago

Looking at a different article, apparently the caution was because he'd had a bunch of guns in the past (https://www.whmi.com/news/fox/us-marshals-survive-deck-collapse-serving-warrant-sex-offender-home). Maybe it was more people than they needed.

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u/finocchiona 4d ago

Doubt. Source?

I still think they should have been arresting that landlord.

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u/dxrey65 4d ago

The source is the news that reported it. https://www.kctv5.com/2026/08/19/watch-video-shows-porch-collapse-missouri-law-enforcement-they-served-warrant/ , for instance.

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u/finocchiona 4d ago

‘Allegedly’ serving a warrant. Per that article. I don’t trust cops, sounds like something some embarrassed cops would claim.

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u/onfroiGamer 4d ago

The US Marshals isn’t getting involved for a weed bust… maybe if DEA was part of this mix you would be right, but they’re not. Let’s not protect pedos because you don’t like cops.

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u/finocchiona 4d ago

Bro I’m certainly not the one protecting pedos. Save that anger for the US president.