"Yes, cops take money from drug dealers.
"The idea was we would change everything: get rid of family, cops, and money..
It does to David Eyster, the district attorney for Mendocino County, California, who, the Los Angeles Times reports, has instituted a system that allows certain marijuana offenders to give the cops some money—$50 per pot plant and $500 per pound of product in order to avoid prison time and get straight probation.
But unless you're in a place where some weird local law lumps police in with the other protected classes, you could theoretically say to every cop, "Your money is not welcome at my vape shop," if that's what your heart demands.
More important, they say, is taking on the "influential people", mostly corrupt cops, who extort money.
The cops want more money, perhaps because their diminished authority means that they can now extract less in bribes.
Poole had heard talk around the force that cops earned big money off-duty working security for Death Row; their badges and gun permits made them especially valuable.
Of course, many would think that the chance to let hardworking, underpaid cops make more money by moonlighting for private business is no big deal – or, since the NYPD gets a cut of these officers' hours of serving private industry, a win-win for the municipal budget in Manhattan.
He was not charged, but cops kept the money anyway.
Less crime should mean fewer cops and less money budgeted for fancy crime-fighting tools.
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