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Title: Former drug officer launches 'KopBusters' TV show
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Raw Story
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Excop ... launches_Kop_Busters_1206.html
Published: Dec 6, 2008
Author: Stephen C. Webster
Post Date: 2008-12-06 20:53:47 by Ada
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Views: 257
Comments: 11
Barry Cooper, a former Texas police officer with eight years of specialty in drug interdiction, first made waves when he released the film "Never Get Busted Again," a how-to guide for evading police drug seizures. Austin, Texas-based Cooper's latest project is not nearly so benign, and will likely generate for the former drug warrior an army of enemies in law enforcement. 'KopBusters' is a reality TV program that aims to sink crooked officers. "KopBusters rented a house in Odessa, Texas and began growing two small Christmas trees under a grow light similar to those used for growing marijuana," claims a release from NeverGetBusted.com "When faced with a suspected marijuana grow, the police usually use illegal FLIR cameras and/or lie on the search warrant affidavit claiming they have probable cause to raid the house. Instead of conducting a proper investigation which usually leads to no probable cause, the Kops lie on the affidavit claiming a confidential informant saw the plants and/or the police could smell marijuana coming from the suspected house." "The trap was set and less than 24 hours later, the Odessa narcotics unit raided the house only to find KopBuster's attorney waiting under a system of complex gadgetry and spy cameras that streamed online to the KopBuster's secret mobile office nearby. "The attorney was handcuffed and later released when eleven KopBuster detectives arrived with the media in tow to question the illegal raid. The police refused to give KopBusters the search warrant affidavit which is suspected to contain the lies regarding the probable cause. "It is not illegal to grow plants under a light in your home but it is illegal to lie on an affidavit and plant drugs on a citizen. This operation was the first of its kind in the history of America. Police sometimes have other police investigating their crimes but the American court system has never dealt with a group of citizens stinging the police. Will the police file charges on the team who took down the corrupt cops? We will keep you posted." Cooper's "Never Get Busted Again" was a runaway success, the sales of which serve as financial support for this most recent project. "The drug war is a failed policy and the legal side effects on the families are worse than the drugs," Cooper said to the Dallas Observer in early 2007. "I was so wrong in the things I did back then. I ruined lives." Click on link for the 'Kop Busters' sting was the feature of a CBS 7 report, aired Dec. 4, 2008.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
Pay back's a MF.
They call it the AMERIKAN DREAM because you have to be asleep (and you are) to believe it !
Home run for the good guys.
Will the police file charges on the team who took down the corrupt cops? Never.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP Bet they could get 'em for littering or loitering???? No fire escape???? Lights too bright, bothering neighbors????
Bet they could get 'em for littering or loitering???? No fire escape???? Lights too bright, bothering neighbors???? I suspect Indie is right simply because if they try to charge them with something then they can use "Discovery" to go after the affidavits used to get the Search Warrant. That would then show that they were guilty of perjury or false swearing, false arrest, violation of the Constitutional Rights of the person arrested and the Cops would be up the proverbial fecal brook without a water moving device. They would be open to each receiving an individual lawsuit which would bankrupt them personally.
"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
If Cooper upsets CIA-connected distributors or protection agents he'll be murdered for sure. And, he may even be targeted by ordinary cops who'll take up a collection for the hit. The Louisiana cops who were featured spending "suspected drug money" at Aspen ski resorts and many other highwaymen who benefit from the present "drug war" would want to see honest cops who expose the hypocrisy of drugs dead. Alcohol Prohibition was the same way. The money corrupted everyone from judges to kids on the streets and anyone who wanted a drink could get it. The people who forced congress to repeal the 18th amendment (with the 21st) agreed that alcohol was bad-but having bullets whizzing past their heads as UNTOUCHABLES (or cops who were protecting one racketeer's turf from another) shot it out with bootleggers on Main Street was worse!
When ya' got 'em by the balls...heh heh
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP I have a new hero ping
Americans used to roar like lions for liberty. Now they bleat like sheep for security The "War on Drugs" has been an utter and complete failure, and those who have profited from it are the vermin of the universe. It's a despicable policy, promoted by despots with evil intent. It's vile, it's deeply and truly evil, it's a flat out menace to our nation and our liberty. The "War on Drugs" needs to be terminated with extreme prejudice, and those behind bars for non-violent "drug crimes" need to be immediately released. When you have cops stopping and seizing money from people because that money MIGHT be used for "drug activity", you know that our system has passed the point of "broken" and is now in the realm of "utterly failed".
#2. To: noone222 (#1)
#3. To: Ada (#0)
"It is not illegal to grow plants under a light in your home but it is illegal to lie on an affidavit and plant drugs on a citizens
"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
#4. To: IndieTX (#3)
Never.
#5. To: Cynicom, IndieTX (#4)
Never.
#6. To: Ada (#0)
#7. To: Ada (#0)
#8. To: Original_Intent (#5)
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guilty of perjury or false swearing, false arrest, violation of the Constitutional Rights of the person arrested and the Cops would be up the proverbial fecal brook without a water moving device. They would be open to each receiving an individual lawsuit which would bankrupt them personally.
"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
#9. To: Ada, *LEAP*, *libertarians* (#0)
#10. To: Ada (#0)
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#11. To: Ada (#0)
There is a 20-year-old kid in St. Louis who carries a video camera in his car and sets up bad cops. Last one who pulled him over got fired. We need more of this. We need lots and lots fewer cops. When I'm originally from, Granite City, Il., recently some St. Louis cops in a bar got into a gunfight, then a local cop from Pontoon Beach (where all the cops are a joke) showed up and shot one of the St. Louis cops. Most everyone involved got fired, Less cops, less crime.
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