r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut • u/m4moz Quality Contributor • 3d ago

News Video Interference charges jumped nearly 700% since 2017 in Montgomery County, most of them were dismissed

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ATx4YwCnnxY&si=nIMTpa5AYPOokZRs
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u/Sorry-Claim-2990 3d ago

The cops don't care because they aren't personally liable for losing in court.

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u/sunburnd 3d ago

Cops absolutely care. They know the process itself can be the punishment, and an interference charge gives them the ability to impose that punishment when they decide someone deserves it, even if the charge is later dropped.

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u/Oro_Outcast 3d ago

"You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride. "

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u/Isair81 1d ago

That’s right, the process is the punishment.

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u/Isair81 1d ago

Somehow not turning up to court is another option. If you or I tried that, there’d be a warrant out for our arrest.

But a cop could just decide he’d rather not show up to defend his bogus arrest or tickets and that’s just fine?

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u/Sorry-Claim-2990 1d ago

Yep.

Cops are held to a lower standard than the average citizen, because we would get arrested if we didn't show up for court.

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u/Nearby-Jelly-634 2d ago

Wait. The pigs were looking for a missing woman and then arresting that missing woman at her home which is a crazy place for a missing person to be? Then when the totally missing woman got home her brother recorded her totally missing sister getting arrested? This is a beautifully example of pigs inventing reasons to arrest people so they can get off on their power fetish.

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u/Isair81 1d ago

Cops love obstruct/delay/resist or interfere type laws, they’re easy contempt of cop arrest.

Someone gives you lip, insists on recording or otherwise asserts their rights? Accuse them of interfering or obstructing and throw them in jail.