EponasChylde
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Joined: 12/31/2007 Status: offline
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Um, hello? Anyone ever heard of "innocent until proven guilty" and "entitled to a defense"? Are you saying every time someone gets arrested, they are guilty and if they are proven not guilty in a court of law it is because someone was "trying to put the criminals back out there on the streets? I believe less than 5% of those arrested are innocent. I believe everyone has a right to a defense, but when you're a laywer and you KNOW your client is guilty but you still look for every possible loophole to let that person go free, then that's wrong IMO. There's a difference between TRUE innocence and technical innocence. Way too many scumbags go free on technicalities, who were really guilty as sin. quote:
Wait.... the justification for this law is that it can be used, if necessary, to book someone when what they are suspected of can't be proven????? That's not what I said. I don't think any cops feel there is justification for this law. I think almost all of them think it's bullshit. However, the legislaters, for whatever reason, believe in it. So, if the legislators are going to put stupid crap like this on the books, then the only times cops are going to enforce it is when it can help them catch a dangerous criminal. If you suspect someone has illegal porn of underage individuals, but you can't prove it....but you CAN prove they have illegal dildos, then why not use the "stupid dildo law" in your favor to get a dangerous pedophile off the streets? It's called being pro-active. Why wait for the pedophile to harm another person? I'm not saying this scenario happens often...I'm just saying it's one scenario that CAN happen. It's no different than going to a high-narcotics area and doing as many traffic stops as possible in hopes of catching a drug dealer. As long as what the officer is doing is LEGAL and it helps remove scumbags from the streets, why not? quote:
If you're not going to enforce it, don't have it as a rule. It only trivializes every other law out there. Tell that to the legislators who pass stupid laws. That has nothing to do with cops. They don't make the laws...they just enforce them. Maybe if the politicians would stop putting so many stupid laws on the books, the cops would have more time to do real police work. quote:
Or it could be the fact that those laws were struck down. Check the TX penal code. It's still on the books.
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