While I think there should be stiff mandatory prison sentences for drug agents who raid the wrong home, this story underscores the arrogance of right-wing city officials who won't even take steps to clean up the mess the failed War on Drugs has made.
In Baltimore, police rammed the door of the wrong house during a botched drug raid.
Now, the man who lives there is trying to get the city to pay to replace the door they broke. But the city refuses to fix it.
It gets worse. When the man discarded the broken door in his back yard for the city's public works department to take, the department refused to take it. Then, a city inspector fined him $50 for having the smashed door in his yard - which was only still there because the public works department wouldn't pick it up like it was supposed to!
But it's a War. On Drugs, you see. So that means the city thinks it never has to say it's sorry, let alone fix the damage - even though the man whose house was raided is innocent.
(Source: http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2009/05/cops_ram_wrong_door_city_wont.html)
Friday, May 8, 2009
City won't fix door drug warriors smashed
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Note that Baltimore is ruled by exclusively Democrats. Not a single Republican on city council and the mayor is a Democrat.
ReplyDeleteI'd hate to burst your bubble, but a lot of them are conservative Democrats.
ReplyDeleteThey had a mayor not too long ago who supported school uniforms and public flogging - yet he was a Democrat.