Here is an article illustrating crime rates and drug addictions WILL NOT go down as long as LIE-berals are in charge!! With some comments of my own in brackets):"Stupid, Dumb and Just Plain Ignorant Cop Thread"
At first I thought this must be a mistake but sure enough, it's a Stupid, Dumb and Just Plain Ignorant Thread
Try this one on...............................................
Ontario man's drug-trafficking case tossed over road-side strip search
By Colin Perkel, The Cdn Press
Published December 10, 2019
TORONTO — A man found with a significant amount of cocaine and heroin has had his case thrown out after a three-day trial because police strip-searched him on the side of a highway and delayed his access to a lawyer.
In his decision, Ontario Superior Court Justice Cary Boswell excluded incriminating evidence because officers violated Robert Cave's constitutional rights.
"I appreciate that police officers have dangerous jobs," Boswell wrote. "(But) there were steps the police could have taken to ensure their safety, short of pulling down Mr. Cave's pants at the roadside."
(OH? And perhaps the hug a thug judge might to PERSONALLY take the risk of showing cops THE RIGHT WAY of dealing with dangerous criminals?? As readers of my stuff will know - I have repeatedly invited LIE-berals to EXPLAIN what those alternative steps might be - with NO RESPONSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Court documents show Cave was arrested in November 2017 in Barrie, Ont., when Det. Const. Jason Breedon, acting on information about a suspected drug trafficker, stopped the vehicle Cave was in. A police check turned up information that Cave was considered "armed and dangerous," even though he had no criminal record and no outstanding charges.
(So the tip was right about drugs and maybe they just caught him in an unarmed moment with gun left elsewhere??????????????????)
At one point, Breedon noted a bulge in the crotch-area of Cave's pants. While the officer and suspect offered contradictory evidence about whether the subsequent search was consensual, Breedon and another officer pulled down Cave's pants — but not his underwear — to his thighs as he stood by the police vehicle.
(Considering that we recently saw a handcuffed Toronto drunk driver - who had ALREADY gone through a pat down before being arrested - and there he was -video taped in the back of a police cruiser on the way to jail - wiggling around so he could stash HIS GUN on the floor in hope of later denying it was his - there is little wonder that cops would take care in dealing with a hard core drug dealer!!!!)
(Clearly a simple police pat down DOES NOT always reveal what a criminal may be carrying and hiding - thus the NEED for a strip search!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
They found a sock containing cocaine tucked inside his boxer shorts.
The officers testified the search took only a few seconds and said Cave was never exposed to members of the public.
(Police vehicles are usually LARGER vehicles and thus a person standing behind one WOULD be screened from road and casual observers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
In his analysis, Boswell found Cave's arrest legal and the search of the truck he was in justified. In addition, the judge said, the bulge the officers observed in Cave's crotch area warranted further investigation for weapons or drugs.
"Where I have a difficulty is the manner in which the search was conducted," the judge said. "I am not satisfied that there were sufficiently exigent circumstances present to justify a roadside strip search."
(Ah yes- the usual LIE-beral hug a thug weasel words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
While the search of the handcuffed suspect was brief and involved male officers who did not touch his private parts, Boswell nevertheless found it violated Cave's rights.
(To bad about the public right to be free of drug addicts and dealers and potentially armed gang bangers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
"I do not find that Mr. Cave consented to having his pants pulled down on the side of the road," Boswell wrote. "The manner in which the search was conducted was not discrete."
(I am sure Mr. Cave would be no more happy to have his pants pulled down at a police station either!! And yet always hypocrite LIE-berals have INSISTED that female jail guards have the right to work at male prisons - where they will be supervising men taking showers or using the toilet so where is the LIE-beral concern for public modesty in that??????????????????????????????????)
Cave testified he felt intimidated and humiliated and Boswell said he accepted the testimony.
(Oh gosh!! And what about the lives destroyed by his drug “product”?????????????)
The Supreme Court has made it clear strip searches are highly intrusive and humiliating, and need to be done carefully. Courts have since repeatedly stated the importance of ensuring such searches be carried out in maximum privacy.
(Yeah, yeah and what about cop safety while transporting prisoners WHO MAY BE ARMED?? And what about the reality of it being easier to buy drugs IN JAIL than on the street?? MORE strip searches seem to be NEEDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Boswell also found police further violated Cave's rights by delaying his access to a lawyer for about 90 minutes after the arrest.
(OH DEAR ME!! A 90 minute delay until his lawyer arrived?? Our Justice of the Peace - the people who generally arrange bail - generally work 8 am - 4 pm so if Cave was arrested after 5pm he would BE SPENDING THE NIGHT IN JAIL ANYWAY - waiting for a Justice of the Peace to come back on duty - regardless of when his lawyer spoke to him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
"Society's interest in the adjudication of this case on its merits must give way in this instance," Boswell wrote. "Permitting the admission of the evidence seized from Mr. Cave, in light of the numerous charter breaches I have identified, would tend to bring the administration of justice into disrepute."
(IN the last party convention before the election - LIE-beral rank and file members made it clear they believe that all drugs- including Heroin and Cocaine should be legalized - so this judge is simply following standard LIE-beral practice in bending the rules to excuse a hard core drug dealer using a spurious interpretation of our LIE-beral written constitution - and the judge is FORCING poisonous LIE-beral values onto the long suffering general public!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)