Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
so staying in a room for 4 days with no food or water, without being charged for a crime and you dont even know why your there for that long . that wouldnt make you crazy?he didnt even know if he would in there for weeks
Enough to try and slit my wrist? I highly doubt it would.
Nonsense, he'd not last more than 10 or so days without water in ideal conditions. So at the most he had to look forward to was about 6 more days of a dehydrating torturous death.
Originally posted by dadudemon
I think money will do a bit more to make amends. Sometimes, money does help to heal wounds (in my extremely lay opinion on confinement psychology).
Personally I'd give up the money entirely if I thought my case could force someone important out of their position because of this kind of negligence. Legal systems are supposed to present enough of a threat that the people in charge work to prevent this kind of thing. As it stands the DEA will absorb the cost of the settlement and change nothing about how they handle people they arrest.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Personally I'd give up the money entirely if I thought my case could force someone important out of their position because of this kind of negligence. Legal systems are supposed to present enough of a threat that the people in charge work to prevent this kind of thing. As it stands the DEA will absorb the cost of the settlement and change nothing about how they handle people they arrest.
I could be wrong but how they handled this case is against their SOP.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Personally I'd give up the money entirely if I thought my case could force someone important out of their position because of this kind of negligence. Legal systems are supposed to present enough of a threat that the people in charge work to prevent this kind of thing. As it stands the DEA will absorb the cost of the settlement and change nothing about how they handle people they arrest.
But a check for a few million would be nice.
Originally posted by dadudemon
I could be wrong but how they handled this case is against their SOP.
I realize this wasn't deliberate but I believe people we give authority to should be treated that much more strictly by the law. If you accidentally locked a person in your basement for several days there would be a very serious investigation into how that happened.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I realize this wasn't deliberate but I believe people we give authority to should be treated that much more strictly by the law. If you accidentally locked a person in your basement for several days there would be a very serious investigation into how that happened.
Agreed on all accounts.
Also, if I were a DEA Agent and I locked a suspect in a cell for 4 days and neglected that person, I would expect to get fired and possibly be criminally prosecuted...or at least have a legitimate tort accusation brought up against me.
Originally posted by Symmetric ChaosYou could do both.
Personally I'd give up the money entirely if I thought my case could force someone important out of their position because of this kind of negligence. Legal systems are supposed to present enough of a threat that the people in charge work to prevent this kind of thing. As it stands the DEA will absorb the cost of the settlement and change nothing about how they handle people they arrest.
American Drug Policy and the Drug War-
When a country decides to combat a perceived social ill with draconian legislation-creating a violent criminal industry which it then combats with a corrupt paramilitary force active in violent social repression, both domestically and internationally as well as propping up right wing regimes, covert domestic drug trafficking, and maintaining funding for a military industrial complex by redirecting a cold war arms buildup against Americans.
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