Have you ever known anybody who was robbed by police?

[Lieldoryn]

I have known a drugdealer that had his door kicked in for interrogation regarding a crime he witnessed. The two cops checked his appartment, found half a pound of cocaine in a cupboard and took it, he was never charged for possesion.

Half a kilo is a lot! I wonder how much money he paid out? It is a pity of course. These should be put in jail. How many lives broken because of drugs. It seems to me that the police are worse than drug dealers.

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[PeterTheGrape]

... Just last year they killed a Korean businessman, strangled him in a car parked just outside the national police chief's office. They took him from his home for "investigation" about drugs...

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My guess is that "killing drug addicts" is a cover for "killing certain drug dealers".

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Could be. The reason people are claiming the president had a hand in these killings is that there were reports of similar methods of execution in his home city when he was a mayor and it seemed to have followed him here into the capital.

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June 20, 2016
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/1978022/dead-or-alive-suspected-drug-dealers-killed-philippines
"Philippine police killed 11 suspected drug dealers during operations at the weekend... "

Dec 16, 2016
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/philippines-drugs-china/
"In President Duterte's war on drugs, there's an elephant in the room. Even as he seeks closer ties with Beijing, the mainland is his country's main source of narcotics - and drug-control officials say little is being done to stanch the flow."

*cough*

http://www.wanttoknow.info/militarysmuggledheroin
Most of this went through Japan and the Philippines. The military bases there are strategically very important to a few people. Likewise the Chinese bases in respective countries.

Nobody wants to invade anywhere. The militaries of the world are run by a bunch of old smack smugglers with odd senses of humour. 

[Lancusters]

Could be. The reason people are claiming the president had a hand in these killings is that there were reports of similar methods of execution in his home city when he was a mayor and it seemed to have followed him here into the capital.

It is not the "people" who are claiming that "he had a hand" in the killings in Davao. Duterte himself have said that he has killed many drug addicts and criminals there, when he was the mayor of that city.

Duterte he is a criminal and deserves life imprisonment. I can not imagine how, after such recognition, it can communicate with the leaders of other countries. Except that Putin can afford such connections.

[Fireblazer]

Could be. The reason people are claiming the president had a hand in these killings is that there were reports of similar methods of execution in his home city when he was a mayor and it seemed to have followed him here into the capital.

It is not the "people" who are claiming that "he had a hand" in the killings in Davao. Duterte himself have said that he has killed many drug addicts and criminals there, when he was the mayor of that city.

Duterte he is a criminal and deserves life imprisonment. I can not imagine how, after such recognition, it can communicate with the leaders of other countries. Except that Putin can afford such connections.

If only to see how ten or twenty years ago there was corruption in the law enforcement bodies, it was possible to be horrified. Now it seems that there are fewer such crimes. But it only seems so. The simple fact is that even the police have become smarter and their crimes are more thought out.

[PeterTheGrape]

I was forced by homeland "security" and the department of "justice" to fork over $80,000 in cash and Bitcoins to the Federal asset forfeiture fund.  Does that count?

Burtw, I'm curious about one thing.

Every story has two sides.

Most people would look at your case and say that it was a case of "law enforcers" trying to keep busy, to justify their job. If you hire a hundred cops to chase ten criminals eventually the extra cops are going to look for some way to keep busy.

Looking at your website and some links, your basic "crime" seems to be

"He’d run afoul of the federal Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), authorized by the Patriot Act to “safeguard the financial system from illicit use and combat money laundering and promote national security,” by trading electronic bitcoins without having filed a business license." http://www.dolpress.com/news/2016/4/17/no-greater-tyranny

But if you were to ask the people who attacked you, they obviously would have to have a better excuse for what they did.

The question is, if you asked the smartest among your attackers to justify themselves, what would they say? For example had you been involved in some activities involving organized crime or thefts or violent crimes or whatever? What excuse would they give for their actions, honestly?

[ustradebitcoin]

  you never live in caribean? i was robbed by police multiple times

in most countries in the caribean a  police earn $100 / month

[ananas99]

you never live in caribean? i was robbed by police multiple times

in most countries in the caribean a  police earn $100 / month

Policemen are not clean in hand in any country. I think everyone understands this. Perhaps some are engaged in looting, while others control drugs, and some help bandits and cover them up. There are all kinds of criminal activities in law enforcement agencies. Now think about how many such policemen have robbed taxpayers.

[erikalui]

I used to be told that US police officers are the least corrupt ones in the world but it's just a misconception. It's true that when police officers are arrested, their sentence is the least and most of them are again employed by the Government but on a lower post. Most of them are not even sentenced but are just suspended from duty (and that too if the media published the case). It's the same everywhere but more in countries where ministers are itself criminals.

[coolcoinz]

WOW They are making obed $70k a year? Nice! In Europe cops earn less than half of this! How greedy you have to be to apply for a job that requires you to uphold the law and protect people just to steal from them and break the law yourself

I have been robbed by police in the past as liquor consumption is illegal in my state and one day they caught me consuming liquor and they started to demand for money and if not then they would file a FIR against me and in that case I had to pay them money.

I'm guessing consumption is legal on private property. You were on a state property and that's why they approached you. How much did you pay?

[Discovery 17]

I have been robbed by police in the past as liquor consumption is illegal in my state and one day they caught me consuming liquor and they started to demand for money and if not then they would file a FIR against me and in that case I had to pay them money.

I'm not from America. In my country, a lot of these cases. My friend tossed the drugs and ammunition with the purpose of obtaining bribes. There have been cases when cops have seized mobile phones.

[audaciousbeing]

If bribe can be said to be the same as robbing from someone then I am definitely a victim as it is not only the police but all enforcement agencies down to the traffic controllers all over the country. In that country its even a verifiable source to see what is being earned but here, no one cares as you even see public officers leaving beyond their means but there is nothing you can do about it and thats how bad the situation is.

[Alexzap]

If bribe can be said to be the same as robbing from someone then I am definitely a victim as it is not only the police but all enforcement agencies down to the traffic controllers all over the country. In that country its even a verifiable source to see what is being earned but here, no one cares as you even see public officers leaving beyond their means but there is nothing you can do about it and thats how bad the situation is.

In my country police take bribes. They prosecute, and then bribes them close. Officials have their opportunities of getting bribes. Cops are representatives of the grassroots corruption.

[bra4our]

In Ghana, its a well known fact that the police are involved in most robberies, for instance it came to light that with the help of the police who supplied the others with Police uniforms, they attacked a Gold dealer for illegally procuring gold, When he asked for their arrest  warrant, they couldn't provide it, his shouts brought people nearby who took them to the Police Station.

[Sithara007]

In my country police take bribes. They prosecute, and then bribes them close. Officials have their opportunities of getting bribes. Cops are representatives of the grassroots corruption.

Apart from a few Western nations and developed Asian nations such as Japan, South Korea and Singapore, the cops are corrupt to the core everywhere. In Africa and the former-USSR, it is beyond the tolerable limit.

[FlightyPouch]

There are times when the police are confiscating fake laptops, phone, tvs, and ebery gadget that is sold on the market, they broadcasted it to the tv and some of the people, said that not of them are burned but the police use it.

[StefanReed]

In my country police take bribes. They prosecute, and then bribes them close. Officials have their opportunities of getting bribes. Cops are representatives of the grassroots corruption.

Apart from a few Western nations and developed Asian nations such as Japan, South Korea and Singapore, the cops are corrupt to the core everywhere. In Africa and the former-USSR, it is beyond the tolerable limit.

Unfortunately cops are representatives of the people. What kind of society are police officers. More than being watched by authorities, and once this happens then politicians in both countries are the same. Themselves guilty.

[Sithara007]

In my country police take bribes. They prosecute, and then bribes them close. Officials have their opportunities of getting bribes. Cops are representatives of the grassroots corruption.

Apart from a few Western nations and developed Asian nations such as Japan, South Korea and Singapore, the cops are corrupt to the core everywhere. In Africa and the former-USSR, it is beyond the tolerable limit.

Unfortunately cops are representatives of the people. What kind of society are police officers. More than being watched by authorities, and once this happens then politicians in both countries are the same. Themselves guilty.

That is also true. Some say that if the people react strongly to bribing by the cops, then this culture will stop. But most of the time, the ordinary people are afraid that the cops will harm them if they don't pay the bribes.

[linenoise]

An employee of my family's business (Hardware, Plumbing and HVAC) stole a lot of things over time. His roommate eventually turned him in. Some items had serial numbers which could be tracked to prove they were stolen. The police confiscated everything he had stolen and said after the trial we'd get the things back.

After the trial we contacted the police about the items, they said they had already sold them at an auction.  We didn't even get back what they had earned at auction.