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These sorts of people are much safer to go after than "murderers and rapists". There's also a case Balko has covered where one of these enemies of the people engaged in private gambling of a more innocent sort (I think) in Northern Virginia was unnecessarily killed by a SWAT team; obviously that level of force is barely enough to arrest such dangerous desperadoes.

sounds similar to something that happened in seattle. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-long-con/Content?oid=...

It sickens me that the police would waste the time prosecuting this, instead of catching murderers and rapists who are free.

Do you honestly believe that the two are exclusive?

To hear the police talk about their budgets and shortages nowadays, yes.