Whoa, hey, I wasn't trying to make it personal. Bad phrasing on my part: let me try again, paraphrasing the last post.
Still: enh. People panic, people make bad decisions. I'm not convinced that the law enforcement system in Brooklyn, Ohio is utterly corrupt and morally bankrupt.
What I wonder, though, is this: if you won't go places where the law enforcement is "retarded" (your word, not mine), can you give an example of the kind of place you would go--i.e., where is it that law enforcement doesn't ever make that kind of bad decision? I myself can't think of anywhere (city, state, or country) where law enforcement hasn't done things far worse than what they did to Righi; so if the actions of the police in the Righi case would keep you out of that city, I'm genuinely curious to know of an example of a place that no such abuse has ever occurred.
As your posted started with mention of your mental list of places you wouldn't go, I hope you agree that you've opened the door for me to ask where you would go without it being personal.
Again, since you mention your own state as a bastion of civil liberties, I can't help looking around for evidence of that. For instance, there's this record of a Tiverton detective being arrested for corruption (http://www.dea.gov/pubs/states/newsrel/boston112806.html); and rather famously there's the Providence mayor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Cianci) who pled "no contest" to a felony assault charge, got back into office, and was then convicted on 26 of 27 charges of "racketeering, conspiracy, extortion, witness tampering, and mail fraud."
Do you consider this kind of corruption less severe than the actions in the Righi case?
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As your posted started with mention of your mental list of places you wouldn't go, I hope you agree that you've opened the door for me to ask where you would go without it being personal.
Again, since you mention your own state as a bastion of civil liberties, I can't help looking around for evidence of that. For instance, there's this record of a Tiverton detective being arrested for corruption (http://www.dea.gov/pubs/states/newsrel/boston112806.html); and rather famously there's the Providence mayor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Cianci) who pled "no contest" to a felony assault charge, got back into office, and was then convicted on 26 of 27 charges of "racketeering, conspiracy, extortion, witness tampering, and mail fraud."
Do you consider this kind of corruption less severe than the actions in the Righi case?