bobk wrote: Regarding the San Diego Police, I remain concerned about corruption. The Torrey situation has remained inexplicable in so many ways that it's hard to know how deep Jebb's contacts may run. That's not strong enough to be proof in court, but it does temper my decisions regarding the police in this city.
Having your vehicle broken into makes you a little paranoid of dirty cops? A dirty drug cop would have no problem setting you up to have drugs found in your van.
The pictures on the first page of this topic suggest that something is rotten somewhere.
Those pictures show a minor social injustice, viewed from the broad perspective.
The corrupt war on drugs is much more rotten, as you defended in a previous footnote:
Footnote: Regarding the war on drugs, we may respectfully disagree. I've seen real lives ruined with drugs - people very close to me. Their lives weren't ruined by the illegality or the cost. Their lives were ruined by the extremely - and I mean extremely - addictive nature of these substances. The human body was designed to crave various chemical messengers that are carefully doled out by our endocrine system. That craving shapes our behavior because it was designed to shape our behavior. It's very hard to resist the pull of those substances because we were designed to obey them!! Short-circuiting that carefully balanced motivational system by ingesting or injecting artificial "feel good" drugs of any kind is a highly irresponsible and often dangerous thing to do.
Tell me how arresting and ruining the lives of so many people has helped anyone except the corrupt system?
Should we defend you if you get busted with something illegal in your car? A little jail time shouldn't ruin you, right?