Above the Law: Theft and Fraud on Duty
It's another day, another narcotics raid in Louisville, Kentucky. Demetrius Allison was sitting quietly at home with his three young kids when the police suddenly appeared, accusing him of dealing drugs. They assaulted him for "resisting arrest" and took almost 10,000 dollars of his cash.
Home to many violent crimes, Louisville's residents also have the dubious distinction of being "protected" by the LMPD or Louisville Metro Police Department, one of America's most controversial police departments.
The LMPD, particularly its narcotics unit, has recently been the subject of a Vice News investigation report that took two years to produce and film. Vice has uncovered the rampant corruption within the LMPD, including cases of police officers stealing money and drugs from crime scenes.
Their modus operandi includes raiding houses or cars with or without a search warrant and accusing individuals of illegally pushing drugs or possessing drugs. If narcotics are on the scene, it's immediately confiscated, and any cash they find automatically labelled as drug money.
However, when they get to the station to prepare evidence reports, these cops do not declare the total amount of any cash seized. They declare less than what was taken (for both the drugs and money). No one looks into it or double checks, so the rest of the cash usually goes missing, presumably taken by corrupt cops.
The money taken from these victims, branded drug money, is also anything but. Mike Jackson, a barber, had 24,000 dollars, his life savings when he was arrested for dealing drugs in a gas station despite having zero evidence and witnesses for his defense. The arresting officer, detective Brett Hankerson only reported recovering 14,000 dollars. All charges against Jackson were eventually dropped, but he never got the $10,000 back.
One of the more insidious aspects of these police-perpetrated crimes is that the victims, like Demetrius Allison, who suffered a broken occipital lobe for his trouble and Mike Jackson, fit a specific look and profile: they are mainly African American. They are also recovering drug addicts, making it harder for anyone to take them seriously when filing legal complaints.
One of these alleged victims was Breonna Taylor, who was shot by police officers raiding her home and claiming she was resisting arrest. This case caught the public eye and was highlighted during the #BlackLivesMatter movement and protests of 2021, bringing more attention to police discrimination, violence and corruption.
Vice reporter Rob Ferdman also spoke to an anonymous informant who disclosed that corruption is really at the heart of the culture of Louisville's police department, with officers seizing -and splitting amongst themselves - amounts as high as $500,000. This is why even those higher-up in the organization do not put a stop to these activities.
No officers have been charged for the death of Breonna Taylor, and there are many more victims like Demetrius Allison and Mike Jackson who will continue to suffer injustices at the hands of those meant to protect the population. It is a systemic problem, sadly tolerated by those at the top.
Reagan & co and their low-IQ fantasies
Im almost 60 and would hear as a young lad, that when felons were caught, if it was drugs, the police would take half or a good slice and justify it to the felon, informing him that they were doing him a favour of getting less charges with less drugs that the felon would agree and the courts never ever knew of the true quantity.
That was when police were reasonably good and had the communities support and sentiment unlike how law enforcement has become today, as policy enforcers, revenue collectors, with attitude and egos taller than the State Empire building, policed by their own that never seem to serve justice to victims of police for accountability and to make examples to keep police in check.
I guess that is the price you pay when you sign a treaty (UNIDROIT and the LIMA accord) with the United Nations , that allows the UN to draw up and enforce training programs for our police, not to mention numerous other policies, all the way from Geneva that I find very odd why the UN feels the need to do that since the mid seventies, and if I dare question it, Iam tagged with a conspiracy theorist label instantly....
Member nations of the UN, without a doubt, have the most unacceptable policing in the world that act like thugs in recent years. As the world watched and witnessed the brutal acts of police, in of all places Australia, during the covid period committing atrocious crimes against their own people for peacefully protesting for freedom of choice.
Whom ever dude is maybe he's a drug user but I don't do drugs...and to the comments below my case is on going the rest don't have a case??♂️
Do not carry large sums of cash on you ever.
Do not agree to a search.
Drug prohibition is the most insidious, corruptive policy in the US since alcohol prohibition almost destroyed this nation. Heroin, LSD, cocaine, marijuana, the damage they have done to the American people is nothing compared to the damage the laws have done. The irony is it hasn't reduced drug consumption, and has likely increased it. What it has done is make the people afraid of their police, and for good reason. Cops suspect everyone of having drugs and are quick to treat them like a criminal for no reason.