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Locking people up for doing drugs is a moral travesty. Locking people up for doing drugs while you also do drugs is... just like, entirely beyond the pale.

Extorting people for money is also bad, and I hope that the extortionists don't get paid, and just release this shit. Police misconduct is the worst sort of misconduct.

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Having done drugs in the past is not "police misconduct". Enforcing bad drug laws is also not "police misconduct". Conflating these things is not going to help you fix any of them.

Locking up people for doing exactly what you're doing is pure hypocrisy, no arguments there. But unless I misread the article, these were background checks of police. They were also background checks of serving police which hopefully infers something about how bad the incidents were. It didn't say whether they were from last week, last year, or last decade. I'm all for transparency, but this is sensationalism with so few details available.

>Locking people up for doing drugs is a moral travesty. Locking people up for doing drugs while you also do drugs is... just like, entirely beyond the pale.

We've had multiple recent presidents and vice presidents who have used illegal drugs.

That seems far more "beyond the pale" because the president has more power than anyone to ending the drug war

Let me introduce you to the current VP of the United States...

We also do not know if the officers that did drugs also locked up people for doing drugs. There are police officers that try to be lenient and use discretion.

the penalty for just using recreational quantities of drugs vs. dealing them is way less harsh though

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