Pubdate: Fri, 12 Dec 2003
Source: Macon Telegraph (GA)
Copyright: 2003 The Macon Telegraph Publishing Company
Contact:  http://www.macontelegraph.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/667
Author: Charles Eldridge

SENDING A MESSAGE

We watch the news and read the papers only to learn about how some police 
officers are involved in wrongdoing. We must open our eyes. Little do we 
know of what goes on behind closed doors.

When we learn of these wrongdoings, it makes us stop and think of what's 
going on with our police force. Over the years, we have seen these type of 
allegations involving police department corruption, brutality, entrapments, 
bribes, sexual misconduct, evidence tampering, illegal searches and seizure 
cover ups all the time.

What has gone wrong? There's a major problem that surely needs to be addressed.

This is not to suggest that all police officers are bad. But we have a 
large number of police officers violating someone's constitutional rights 
daily. I strongly support the three judges who ruled on the illegal search 
and seizure by a south Georgia deputy sheriff. I believe that the message 
sent by those judges of the 11th Circuit Court was to say to each and every 
police officer, enforce the law correctly and precisely!

That message also was that state police officers are not above the law and 
that they shouldn't abuse their authority.

Charles Eldridge, Roberta
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