so they trash some guy's place and steal his old postcards

Why waste a trip? Call it a training exercise.

/risking our lives
//protecting the public
///back off civilian

That's cool. I'm sure that the cops will apologize profusely, and happily pay to have everything restored to its original condition.

/Statute of limitations?

Peter von Nostrand: You know who else went on crime spree in 1990...

Well to be fair, we don't KNOW if he did.. but he hasn't said he HASN'T either. We need to keep asking questions to determine the truth.

Peter von Nostrand: You know who else went on crime spree in 1990...

"To harass and intimidate."

Keep up the good job cops. You dont have a bad enough reputation

The Gardner is finihsing up some pretty nice looking additions at the moment. I hope they can find the stolen works some day.

/Simmons student
//Waste time there

This cant be right, cops only harass black people.

Shouldn't the jack booted thugs we call cops be at a peaceful protest pepper spraying protesters? What a bunch of roid rage retards.

The problem with investigative cops is they deal with the strangest parts of society. They get these weird million to one hunches that turn out to be true all the time. They also have to work off of scant and unreliable information all the time. They learn to trust their instincts over the info, which works out on balance for the most part. Then, sometimes they get it into their head (because of inconsistencies or body language or assumptions) that someone did something a certain way and there is just no amount of evidence that is ever going to change their mind. Some higher up has been harboring a real hard-on for this guy for a very long time.

...in the home of a grizzled former safecracker...
Carlo, whose last brush with the law was a minor drug rap a decade ago, ...

"I'm an old man and they still won't get off my case," he said. "They don't ever let you live it down."

lol maybe if you stopped with the crime it would help

salvador.hardin: The problem with investigative cops is they deal with the strangest parts of society. They get these weird million to one hunches that turn out to be true all the time.

Wouldn't that make them one-to-one hunches?

trappedspirit: ...in the home of a grizzled former safecracker...
Carlo, whose last brush with the law was a minor drug rap a decade ago, ...

"I'm an old man and they still won't get off my case," he said. "They don't ever let you live it down."

lol maybe if you stopped with the crime it would help


Yep. The dude got busted with a joint ten years ago, so the cops are totally justified in ripping his home to shreds every day of the week.

but it was all done for our security & safety, those that would give up liberty to gain temporary safety deserve neither.

Peter von Nostrand: You know who else went on crime spree in 1990...

Glenn Beck?

Why do I expect a follow-up story about the home inspector visiting his house and declaring it condemned?

Matthew Keene: Peter von Nostrand: You know who else went on crime spree in 1990...

Glenn Beck?

RIP devil's haircut

Never give a cop a job where thinking, discernment and educated, good judgement are required.

keylock71: Can he sue for the damage done to his property?

I would...


I'm sure the cops and the judge would appreciate a good laugh.

keylock71: Can he sue for the damage done to his property?

I would...

In the USA anyone can sue anybody for anything.

From the pics from the article, It looked like the randomly punched holes in the walls and vandalized his house.

Real question! Who pays for the repairs? That is not a quick patching and paint job.

ritalinchild 54: Real question! Who pays for the repairs? That is not a quick patching and paint job.

The victim.

Noluk: Shouldn't the jack booted thugs we call cops be at a peaceful protest pepper spraying protesters? What a bunch of roid rage retards.

There's dark side of the law?
There is

ArcadianRefugee: salvador.hardin: The problem with investigative cops is they deal with the strangest parts of society. They get these weird million to one hunches that turn out to be true all the time.

Wouldn't that make them one-to-one hunches?

No.

Yeah I'm sure who ever stole it is just sitting on it and has it stashed behind their drywall. They were likely contracted to find those specific items and made the transfer shortly after the job was done. Those paintings are sitting in some rich guy's private collection.

ritalinchild 54: From the pics from the article, It looked like the randomly punched holes in the walls and vandalized his house.

Real question! Who pays for the repairs? That is not a quick patching and paint job.

They don't look random. Looks like they punched holes between studs to check each void space. In general it doesn't sound like a harassment job. For whatever reason someone thinks this guy did it.

I don't know who pays for it. If its a properly executed warrant then I think its on him.

Come and get me, coppers.

Typical police thuggery. I would wager that a good deal of that damage/harassment/theft was carried out as a scare tactic to get the guy to talk. Tear out the walls, smash a few heirlooms, steal anything that's not nailed down, and never give the guy a moment's peace... because, hey, he might know something about a twenty-year-old case.

If your car gets stolen, they're going to write up a report so you can inform your insurance agency. Nobody is going to be looking for it an hour later, never mind two decades. More and better protection for the rich, at the expense of the underclasses... and they wonder why people are getting upset.

Amos Quito: I'm sure the cops and the judge would appreciate a good laugh.

Why is it these cocksuckers can simply destroy anyone's property and never have to compensate for it?
Fark that, and fark everyone who thinks it's ok.

ReverendJasen: Amos Quito: I'm sure the cops and the judge would appreciate a good laugh.

Why is it these cocksuckers can simply destroy anyone's property and never have to compensate for it?
Fark that, and fark everyone who thinks it's ok.

THIS.

And where is CruiserTwelve? He usually has something utterly stupid and immoral to say in these threads.

if they're looking for something as silly as this 21 years later, they should also be looking into why Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990

/just sayin'

Well let's be fair, they went to a lot of trouble to get there and trash the place, they might as well not have left empty-handed.

wmoonfox: If your car gets stolen, they're going to write up a report so you can inform your insurance agency. Nobody is going to be looking for it an hour later, never mind two decades. More and better protection for the rich, at the expense of the underclasses... and they wonder why people are getting upset.

Dude they made more than one of your Dodge Stratus, no one gives a fark about it, nor should you. If I remember right these painting were not even insured. It was from a public museum so they stole from everyone.

Not that it doesn't suck when cops do this, just your statement is a bit odd.

"authorities seized an envelope, postcards he received some 30 years ago and the outline of a lurid page-turner he never finished writing."

That's some fine police work, there, Lou.

Eh... someone doesn't go to all that trouble if the guy was perfectly clean.

karmaceutical: Eh... someone doesn't go to all that trouble if the guy was perfectly clean.

Actually the do it all the time.

karmaceutical: Eh... someone doesn't go to all that trouble if the guy was perfectly clean.

Beautiful circular logic there... police trashed an innocent man's house who cannot be innocent because the police trashed his house.

did anyone else notice that the quote under the photo "nothing but aggravation" had nothing to do with the holes in the wall, but his critique of art? and that they put both in the article, knowing full well they were taking it out of context, and no one is going to call them out on it, except for me, on fark, and i'm done now?

FTA: "Carlo says the search and subpoena are evidence of a lesson he's learned the hard way over the years: Once a con, always a suspect."

Dean Keaton nods knowingly.

// or does he?

ReverendJasen: Amos Quito: I'm sure the cops and the judge would appreciate a good laugh.

Why is it these cocksuckers can simply destroy anyone's property and never have to compensate for it?


Because if they were held accountable for what they did they might actually have to consider justifying their intrusive pillaging and plundering - you know, like it says in the 4th Amendment.

What kind of a society would we have then?

Seriously, does anyone actually know if they compensate you for damages if you turn out to be innocent? Seems like they would have to, but things aren't always the way the seem they should be.

salvador.hardin: ritalinchild 54: From the pics from the article, It looked like the randomly punched holes in the walls and vandalized his house.

Real question! Who pays for the repairs? That is not a quick patching and paint job.

They don't look random. Looks like they punched holes between studs to check each void space. In general it doesn't sound like a harassment job. For whatever reason someone thinks this guy did it.

I don't know who pays for it. If its a properly executed warrant then I think its on him.

Bullshiat. They learned on this guy cause they though they could. This kind of shiat is going to stop one way or another.

Its bad when the area you patrol is out to get you. Its a nightmare when its your neighbors.

He could could cover the holes in the walls with paintings.
Maybe some prints or...

cs30109: Seriously, does anyone actually know if they compensate you for damages if you turn out to be innocent? Seems like they would have to, but things aren't always the way the seem they should be.

They do not. Even if you sued and managed to win, they still wouldn't pay you. What's a judge going to do, hold the department in contempt?