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Ilsa

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1. Your cynicism is warranted.

Reply to Justice wanted (Original post)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 09:30 PM

Mar 2012

I experienced a situation where a detective left me, a victim of a felony, alone in a room with no windows and a photographic line-up and the photo file of the perp they had arrested. he fully expected me to look at both files to get the match. I played dumb and refused to play his unethical "game".

Now on L.W.L.O. on msnbc, they are interviewing the mother of a teenager who called 911 the night of Trayvon's murder because he saw part of what happened. They didn't interview the teen until March 5.

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How the FUCK can I trust Law Enforcement anymore?! [View all] Justice wanted Mar 2012 OP

Your cynicism is warranted. Ilsa Mar 2012 #1

You trusted Law Enforcement? chollybocker Mar 2012 #2

Not sure when, if ever, I trusted law enforcement. Certainly any trust has been completely forfeit villager Mar 2012 #3

As a caucasian male, I have always held reservations about LEO's. Dawson Leery Mar 2012 #4

Cops hardly ever get punished for doing stuff wrong. I no longer respect them. Logical Mar 2012 #5

Then this probably won't help pokerfan Mar 2012 #6

IT TOOK THE CELLPHONE FOOTAGE TO PROTECT A WOMAN WHO WAS BEING FALSELY CHARGE Justice wanted Mar 2012 #7

I guess it came from being counterculture in the 60s/70s.... socialist_n_TN Mar 2012 #8

I figured out the cops were not my friends when I was about 11. bemildred Mar 2012 #9

I have never trusted the pigs gopiscrap Mar 2012 #10

Trust is an unjustified, ill conceived, and dangerous position in this area TheKentuckian Mar 2012 #11

I can relate to this. Lugnut Mar 2012 #12