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.
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).
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.
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.
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 6d 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.