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echo: askacop
to: RICH GRIEBEL
from: BOB RUDOLPH
date: 1998-04-10 13:35:00
subject: Re: zero tolerance

 RG> -> -> -> RW>Now, we both know that probably 99.999% of the LEOs out
 RG> ->   >there want nothing more then to do their job and go
 RG> ->   >home every day.  But there is and always will be that
 RG> ->   >small number that forces all of us, LEOs and LACs, to
 RG> ->   >keep a bright light on all of them.
 RG> -> CH> O.K.; but now you are talking about exceptions to the rule.
 RG> -> But w/o being able to see what is happening and what
 RG> -> all of them are doing you will have a very hard time
 RG> -> finding this exception.
 RG> -> Here is an example.  An officer heard on the scanner
 RG> -> saying, and I'm paraphrasing here, that he was going to
 RG> -> find SOMETHING to arrest this a$$hole for.  Referring
 RG> -> to someone he had just pulled over.  And he did.  The
 RG> -> only thing was someone had heard him and contacted the
 RG> -> guy or his lawyer.  When the judge heard the radio
 RG> -> tapes with this statement on it the case was tossed
 RG> -> out.  (FYI, the officer lasted about two more weeks on
 RG> -> the job.)
 RG> Not that the officer did anything correct, but what happened to the
 RG> individual that violated Federal, and possibly State law, by tape 
 RG> recording the radio transmissions and releasing them to a third party?
Probably nothing - it would have confused the issue.
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