Thursday, September 29, 2016

We're the Only Ones Inquisitive Enough

Police officers across the country misuse confidential law enforcement databases to get information on romantic partners, business associates, neighbors, journalists and others for reasons that have nothing to do with daily police work... [More]
Hey, if you don't have anything to hide, what's the problem?

[Via William T]

2 comments:

Longbow said...

Now I just don't wanna believe that. The cops? Them's the good guys! You should do ANYTHING they tell you to do.

FedUp said...

I can recall when a nearby city was in the news for firing a officer over abusing a police database. Her two violations were for using it to find out her husband's SSN for health insurance paperwork instead of calling him and asking him for it, and for checking to see if there were any outstanding warrants on her father.

I couldn't help but think that members of that department must have committed much worse abuse of the same databases hundreds of times a week, but I guess it's possible that they just didn't tolerate unofficial use of official databases there.