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"The allegations submitted for review appear to be limited to misdemeanor violations which do not rise to a threshold for assigning a case to the CID Special Investigations Unit," the commander of the CID wrote in a September 29 letter declining the request.

I guess felony hacking charges are only for teenagers changing desktop backgrounds.

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When crimes are committed by law enforcement, the penalties should be higher than for non-LEO.

That would be ideal and would hold LEOs to higher standard, but in reality, the exact opposite happens.

I wonder if codifying this in law specifically would counteract what happens in reality (DA's operating by creationist logic when the perp is of Blue ethnicity).

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