re: #145 sator arepo tenet opera rotas

OK, but much of the damage described above is not search related.

Why are there no laws against wanton non-search-related destruction of property?

In this case, I have to plead “I am not a lawyer”. There probably are such laws, but the cops will testify the objects were broken in the course of the search, not in excessive retaliatory stupidity, so it’s he-said/she-said between the cops and ordinary citizens, often ordinary citizens with rap sheets.

It’s the classic who watches the watchmen scenario. The cops aren’t really going to investigate this crap. IA is still part of the Chicago PD, and they mostly give ‘recommendations’ rather than actually pursuing prosecutions, and they become part of the larger political game in the Chicago PD.