Systemic policing problems

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And it isn't a matter of just one bad apple but even this one "bad apple" had hundreds of these kinds of lying stops and ruined several lives.

More than 400 convictions involving suspected racist cop in Virginia could be overturned

More than 400 convictions in Virginia could be overturned after prosecutors found evidence the arresting cop was racist. Jonathan Freitag, 25, is accused of making up reasons to pull people over an…

www.nydailynews.com

More than 400 convictions in Virginia could be overturned after prosecutors found evidence the arresting cop was racist.​

Jonathan Freitag, 25, is accused of making up reasons to pull people over and planting drugs in their vehicles in Fairfax County, the Washington Post reported.​

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Freitag stopped Wilson, a 23-year-old Black man, on April 3, 2018, and said he swerved over the center yellow line, according to the Post. Freitag then searched Wilson’s car and allegedly found drugs and a gun. Facing a maximum of 10 years in prison, Wilson took a plea deal in 2019, in which he maintained his innocence but admitted he’d probably be convicted given the evidence, local radio station WTOP reported. The deal sent Wilson to prison for three years, and he lost his job.​

 

[Citizen]

And it isn't a matter of just one bad apple but even this one "bad apple" had hundreds of these kinds of lying stops and ruined several lives.

More than 400 convictions involving suspected racist cop in Virginia could be overturned

More than 400 convictions in Virginia could be overturned after prosecutors found evidence the arresting cop was racist. Jonathan Freitag, 25, is accused of making up reasons to pull people over an…

www.nydailynews.com

More than 400 convictions in Virginia could be overturned after prosecutors found evidence the arresting cop was racist.​

Jonathan Freitag, 25, is accused of making up reasons to pull people over and planting drugs in their vehicles in Fairfax County, the Washington Post reported.​

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Freitag stopped Wilson, a 23-year-old Black man, on April 3, 2018, and said he swerved over the center yellow line, according to the Post. Freitag then searched Wilson’s car and allegedly found drugs and a gun. Facing a maximum of 10 years in prison, Wilson took a plea deal in 2019, in which he maintained his innocence but admitted he’d probably be convicted given the evidence, local radio station WTOP reported. The deal sent Wilson to prison for three years, and he lost his job.​

And that is very common place throughout the country

Another Baltimore police body-cam video shows officers 'plant' drugs

A number of criminal cases in Baltimore have gone up in smoke over the past two weeks after two Baltimore police body-camera videos have allegedly shown officers planting drugs on residents of the city.

www.nbcnews.com

I think cops are more pressured to make arrest than arresting actual criminals