Florida Deputy: Planting Evidence and Lying is Part of the Game

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Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

poo poo, at least they actually brought them down when it happened here in the 90s.

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Delta agents got a bogus search warrant for a Manatee County duplex and planted crack cocaine there. A woman visiting the home was arrested. As a result of her felony conviction, she lost custody of her child. Before her encounter with the Delta squad, she had no criminal record. Eventually, her conviction was overturned and her child was returned.

Delta officers conducted an illegal search of a Bradenton motel room and stole $9,000 from a man, who filed a complaint with the Sheriff's Office. Later, deputies planted crack cocaine in the man's car as retaliation for the complaint.

Delta agents routinely obtained search warrants based on lies: If drugs had been bought outside a house, Delta officers would say the buy had taken place inside the home and get a search warrant for the house.

The officers brought crack with them on busts. If they didn't find any in the homes or pockets of the people they were trying to arrest, they would plant it. Fabricating cases wasn't the only aim. The agents wanted to use seizure laws to take cars and other property from their victims.

Sometimes the agents would give crack cocaine to people who were helpful to their investigations.

One agent bragged that Delta operated under the "good old boy" system and didn't have to abide by rules to which other deputies were subjected.

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Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

prussian advisor posted:

I don't know about other states, but I can tell you that Florida has a consolidated state police-like agency (the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, or FDLE) that is a weird mashup of FBI-style special agents and crime labs, the protective detail duties of the Secret Service, and a sort of standards & professionalism bureau that certifies agency conduct as a precondition to access to resources like various criminal databases. It's statewide agencies like these, which I understand to be pretty common throughout the US, that are going to probably be the vehicle to ensure that body cam use is consistent and sensible. There will never be a national reorganization of police forces in the foreseeable future.

Oh, you mean that thing that Rick Scott's trying to destroy and/or turn into his personal gestapo for use against political opponents.

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