re: #150 Obdicut

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.

And if anyone can carry out major harassment of ordinary citizens, it’s a local police department. That’s a major reason why you should really be fearing who runs your local government more than the federal or even state one. The latter two are probably just interested in cash from you for the most part in an abstract sense. The local one can get personal real quick.