Flaking’– Planting Drugs on Innocent People

[Qtec]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A former NYPD narcotics detective has testified in court to the widespread practice of planting drugs on innocent people in order to meet arrest quotas.

According to the New York Daily News, Stephen Anderson, the former detective, gave a detailed description of the practice, known among NYPD cops as “flaking,” which is apparently commonplace in Brooklyn and Queens. Anderson turned state’s evidence after he was busted for “flaking” cocaine on four innocent men in Queens in 2008. He did this to help fellow officer Henry Tavarez, who wasn’t meeting his ‘buy-and-bust’ quota. </div></div>


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Gabriel Sayegh of the Drug Policy Alliance, a group opposed to the failed War on Drugs, told the Huffington Post that <u>“one of the consequences of the war on drugs is that police officers are pressured to make large numbers of arrests, and it’s easy for some of the less honest cops to plant evidence on innocent people. The drug war inevitably leads to crooked policing — and quotas further incentivize such practices.”</u>

This is far from the first time that this sort of thing has happened in the NYPD. <span style='font-size: 14pt'>Last year, more than 50,000 people– 86% of them black and Latino– were arrested for low-level marijuana offenses. According to the Huffington Post, that made marijuana possession the leading offense in New York City, despite the fact that marijuana was decriminalized back in 1977.</span> </div></div>

There must be an awful lot of people in prison for doing nothing but being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Q

[Gayle in MD]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Qtec</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A former NYPD narcotics detective has testified in court to the widespread practice of planting drugs on innocent people in order to meet arrest quotas.

According to the New York Daily News, Stephen Anderson, the former detective, gave a detailed description of the practice, known among NYPD cops as “flaking,” which is apparently commonplace in Brooklyn and Queens. Anderson turned state’s evidence after he was busted for “flaking” cocaine on four innocent men in Queens in 2008. He did this to help fellow officer Henry Tavarez, who wasn’t meeting his ‘buy-and-bust’ quota. </div></div>


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Gabriel Sayegh of the Drug Policy Alliance, a group opposed to the failed War on Drugs, told the Huffington Post that <u>“one of the consequences of the war on drugs is that police officers are pressured to make large numbers of arrests, and it’s easy for some of the less honest cops to plant evidence on innocent people. The drug war inevitably leads to crooked policing — and quotas further incentivize such practices.”</u>

This is far from the first time that this sort of thing has happened in the NYPD. <span style='font-size: 14pt'>Last year, more than 50,000 people– 86% of them black and Latino– were arrested for low-level marijuana offenses. According to the Huffington Post, that made marijuana possession the leading offense in New York City, despite the fact that marijuana was decriminalized back in 1977.</span> </div></div>

There must be an awful lot of people in prison for doing nothing but being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Q </div></div>

It's hard to determine which anachronistic policies hurt this country the most.

The War On Drugs, or the breach of our Founder's Intended, Separation Of Church and State.

Drugs should be legalized. End of problem. Let the drug abusers kill themselves off as fast as possible.

That's the problem with this country, because of the right, we keep on doing what we have already learned, doesn't work.

Prohibition should have taught us that lesson, once and for all.

Not here though! We seem to only do what doesn't work, over and over again.

The Christians, you know, the wannabe dictators, who screw up everything, the same way they are trying to dictate their BS in America's bedrooms, and doctors offices.

Catholic Bishops, turning their services into political campaigns, and lobbying on The Hill, for their anachronistic twisted ideas about life, should lose their tax exemptions.

That's exactly what needs to be done. Throw the Bishops in jail, and give the druggies what they want, lol. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

Organized religion is a joke to me.

Some people just love to be scammed by frauds.

G.

[cushioncrawler]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Qtec</div><div class="ubbcode-body">....There must be an awful lot of people in prison for doing nothing but being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Q</div></div>The usofa -- anytime.
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