District Court Judge Otis Wright slammed the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) in his opinion last week, writing “Society does not win when the Government stoops to the same level as the defendants it seeks to prosecute — especially when the Government has acted solely to achieve a conviction for a made-up crime.” Wright was referring to the ATF practice of “unfairly [enlisting] people in a ‘made-up crime’ by offering them a huge payday for robbing a non-existent drug stash house.”
The ATF has more than quadrupled the number of stings it conducts over the last decade. They use fake stash houses to target violent criminals, though generally capture only small time crooks.
“The time has come to remind the Executive Branch that the Constitution charges it with law enforcement — not crime creation. A reverse-sting operation like this one transcends the bounds of due process and makes the Government the oppressor of its people,”
The opinion is a response to a case in Los Angeles Antuan Dunlap was arrested by the ATF. According to Wright, there was “no evidence that Dunlap had been involved in drug house robberies in the past or that he would have participated in one had an undercover ATF agent not offered him the chance to steal as much as 25 kilograms of non-existent cocaine,” USA Today writes.
“Zero. That’s the amount of drugs that the Government has taken off the streets as the result of this case and the hundreds of other fake stash-house cases around the country. That’s the problem with creating crime: the Government is not making the country any safer or reducing the actual flow of drugs,” Wright wrote.
Source: Rare
Photo: BATF
Bet they laughed all the way back to the office. Who cares what some judge says? Paycheck still comes on the 15th and 30th of the month.
Now slap the fbi for doing the same with the “war on terror”
What a joke you know the law is f**e our money our leaders the news the weather our food…F**E F**E F**E!!!!!
But when a
prince acquires a new state, which he adds as a
province to his old one, then it is necessary to
disarm the men of that state, except those who
have been his adherents in acquiring it; and these
again, with time and opportunity, should be
rendered soft and effeminate; and matters should
be managed in such a way that all the armed men
in the state shall be your own soldiers who in your
old state were living near you
Give your self a leaders education to understand the way rules think
PRIVATE PRISONS…..
All of them involved should be arrested for breaking and entering, theft, disobeying a restraining order.
Yes, but they want to be Nazi Germany
Done trying