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a lawmaker in Kansas anonymously submitted legislation that would make it
a felony
if you file any type a report that has any misinformation
about a police officer now again so what did so
anonymously probably because this is hideous legislation
are so the house committee in Kansas will allow both
on it but just to give you a sense of what will happen let's say there was
some wrongdoing some sort of corruption that you experience through a police
officer
well you would submit a report and guess who gets to investigate that
the police department and make it to decide whether or not
it is an accurate report now before and up
police officer in question response to anything
he gets to take a look at that police report which is very very questionable
because that gives them an opportunity to make up a story
and I have some something that'll conflict with what you've already
written
up so this is a complete another disaster according to
the Kansas exposed with calves expose which is a paper that wrote about this
people in Wichita are already afraid to file complaints against the
wichita police department because the department has a well-known reputation
for retaliating against those who do
and this bill would render such retaliation legal
furthermore the bill clearly prevents an outside agencies such as the Kansas
Bureau investigations
for opening an investigation into the allegation
that the WPD has already ruled upon so
now if you actually had a police department was functional
and what they wanna do is say hey listen if you follow
false police report Press Picasa quests that right and applies to everybody not
just the cops but
to file police reports police report against your neighbor or someone else
right
I think it's a perfectly rational back to take now in this case first we'll
have a history
up do retaliation second while they said no only in the case of cops
the will we make it illegal if you to pile up false police report about it
third of all were the only ones who get to decide whether you buy the false
police report who and no one else can judge us
not even in the City Kansas other officials in circles
was mostly overlooked your actions they can no longer overlooked that acadia
operate outrageous and obviously unacceptable
and then to say they have the right to dependence
that no other defendant has which is I can you imagine
guy comes in rob a bank beat somebody up ***
they say don't lol here let me show you all the other witness testimony for
seeking craft your
you to text or use I accordingly
we would never do that when it comes to Copley oh yes here's all the evidence
against you
the crafter defense before you even speak to us outrageous
reso crazy and the whoever the lawmakers the president submitted this legislation
anonymously
knows it's outrageous because you wouldn't submitted anonymously
otherwise you would want some sort of name recognition from your constituents
if you're proposing something that would actually appeal to your constituents
and read look at this discuss two things about that one
in a democracy how do you feel about the bill anonymously it's ridiculous I
separate is okay and then second a wall
the bill punishes anyone who filed false police report
against the police even if they did so
anonymously but he would not a bill
was filed anonymously okay
his bill stinks in the eighteen different ways
and you know Jon Stewart it worried us 89 Kansas
and call the quote met level democracy who care for all the crazy laws they've
been doing
insane law they had against gay rights that eventually was so insane that they
even dropped it the controversial bill
that allowed children and parents to beat their children
right we covered on Yahoo now they've added this law on top
with the cops can like obviously retaliate against you put you in prison
if you report they're doing anything wrong yeah and they'll all we want to
get the judge that
this it so crazy that they're even embarrassed to admit
who submitted exactly