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Anon has an idea to get laid (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There are tons of examples counter to your claim.

A lot of the settlements probably don't even get reported on at the request of the city in question.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While true, your hypothesis doesn't take into consideration how often the police fuck up.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

And you don't seem to take into consideration how rarely people sue. A lot of open and shut cases aren't pursued because the public doesn't know they can.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, 10 million might be a stretch. But the city I used to work in would immediately settle for 250k for something like that. Lawyers are expensive, and losing is more expensive

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

10M was a stretch for sure, but a family in Jolliet recently got 2.9M USD for the police raiding the wrong house and quite a while back Dr. Lawrence Crosby got 1.25M USD for the police arresting him for the theft of his own car based on an anonymous tip.

[–] Szyler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Those are accidents vs the op which was not an accident. It was legit the right place and searching for the right thing. They had some evidence to do the search legally. So your comment and this hypothetical aren't quite the same.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The judge and jury don't know about the accident. The judge and jury will see that police raided an older couple's house based on at most a stock photo, an anonymous tinder account, a photo of school laboratory from an unknown source (anon's not even a real chemist), and an IP address which can be spoofed.

In fact, they don't even know anon is involved at all.