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nikis-knight9/16/2009 3:59:18 pm PDT

re: #452 Sharmuta


You can’t have two standards. Cops have to follow the law too. If this isn’t a justification for the ends justifying the means, then please tell me what it is.

Justice. If a law is just, it should be enforced. The court system pretending not to know someone is guilty in order to punish the crooked cop is illogical.

Perhaps the cop commited a worse crime in uncovering it. That officer will be subject to a greater punishment, then. Lose his/her job, and be arrested/fined for tresspassing, breaking and entering, etc.

It is NOT the ends justifying the means, because the officiers behavior is NOT being excused or forgiven, but punished to the full extent of the law.
But again, it makes no sense for the judge and jury to ignore information because of how it is gained, information that can be used to correctly convict a criminal and thus prevent a repeat of his or her theft or rape or murder or whatever.

If the crime is so minor that you would risk it being repeated to teach the police a lessen, like drug possession perhaps, then that is a different issue—that law should be over turned or the punishment changed. But if a law is worth enforcing, it is worth enforcing no matter how that information of it was gained.