• stringere@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    What about when the cops make you blow into a breathalyzer multiple times until it puts you over the legal limit? It’s the citizens’ responsibility to tell then to reset the machine.

    I was too poor to afford a lawyer. To someone who was only 21 and just getting started on his own that ruined my early adult life financially. Over $15,000 for all the classes, court costs, additional insurance, etc. This was early 2000s, I don’t even want to adjust that amount for inflation.

    Maybe think before you decide other people’s fate. What happened to me can and does happen to anyone the police don’t like.

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Laws to prosecute police officers that provide false testimony or fabricate evidence?

      Personally, I see saving the 30+ people who are going to die from drunk driving every day as more important than the serious (but seldom) consequences that happened to you due to a corrupt/incompetent cop and lawyer. No offense.