I don’t think cops are liable for damages even in a case like this.
Probable cause is a whole ass bitch.
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Don’t end it Anon, you just struck it rich my dude. The police tear apart your parents home looking for a nonexistent meth lab run by a nonexistent student and a photo as evidence which is a top search result?
The police union basically just handed your family 10 Million Dollars after a brief lawsuit.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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, which is about as much “probable cause” as this case.
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But the police raided the right house. They had all the evidence they needed for a warrant.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“All of the evidence they needed” was a big pile of absolutely nothing and nobody.
RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Plenty of places would happily pay a couple of million not to find out
sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
A brief lawsuit that will only exist if you are wealthy or can find contingency representation.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Maybe, but it may take a couple years to see any of that money…
bassomitron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Man, that might happen for a high profile family/person. For average people in many places in the US, they’ll be lucky if the police even pay out to cover damages to property, nevermind anything else.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They’ll be lucky if the police don’t kill them in the raid.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Very easy to tell whether they will get killed during the raid, simply follow the Standard Police Academy Appropriate Force chart:
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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 3 weeks ago
While true, your hypothesis doesn’t take into consideration how often the police fuck up.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
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 3 weeks ago
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.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
And anywhere outside the US, home searches are nearly always legal since they must be signed by a judge. And judges rarely rule against their own.
Over here in Germany, where the inviolability of the home is in the constitution, the suspicion of any crime suffices for getting your home searched. This includes filesharing, spraying graffiti or insulting someone on the internet by calling them a dick. Plus, any resulting damages are only paid if you are found not guilty.
cheers_queers@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
calling someone a dick is a crime??
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
archive.is/RsyNC [unpaywalled Washington Post link]
Some reactions:
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Later the police arrived:
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But again:
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And the cops came back:
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But finally:
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By the way, the case was finally dropped. Only because the outrage made them not pursue it though. Courts would have likely ruled this was an insult.