{"id":1979,"date":"2008-12-08T13:52:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T17:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2008-12-08T13:52:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T17:52:18","slug":"police-breaking-the-law-to-stop-people-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/12\/08\/police-breaking-the-law-to-stop-people-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Breaking the Law to Stop People From . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>breaking the law isn&#8217;t exactly unprecedented in the US.\u00c2\u00a0 Except in this case, the only ones breaking the law were the police.\u00c2\u00a0 This is fantastic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KopBusters rented a house in Odessa, Texas and began growing two small Christmas trees under a grow light similar to those used for growing marijuana. When faced with a suspected marijuana grow, the police usually use illegal FLIR cameras and\/or lie on the search warrant affidavit claiming they have probable cause to raid the house. Instead of conducting a proper investigation which usually leads to no probable cause, the [cops] lie on the affidavit claiming a confidential informant saw the plants and\/or the police could smell marijuana coming from the suspected house.<\/p>\n<p>The trap was set and less than 24 hours later, the Odessa narcotics unit raided the house only to find KopBuster\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attorney waiting under a system of complex gadgetry and spy cameras that streamed online to the KopBuster\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s secret mobile office nearby.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/show\/130429.html\">more here<\/a> (note that I endorse Balko&#8217;s take on the perpetrator, unfortunately).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>breaking the law isn&#8217;t exactly unprecedented in the US.\u00c2\u00a0 Except in this case, the only ones breaking the law were the police.\u00c2\u00a0 This is fantastic: KopBusters rented a house in Odessa, Texas and began growing two small Christmas trees under a grow light similar to those used for growing marijuana. When faced with a suspected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}