[raverbashing]

I can understand the hatred, and professionalism apart (which must absolutely be expected), how would the police be expected to act when dealing with a potential trafficker with a fake passport?

Just to be more clear, potential as probability higher than a certain value (not being 100% right)

[vonklaus]

Everyone is a potential trafficker, murder or criminal. That is what makes being a cop so difficult. However, the magnitude of the potential is usually determined by things like information and evidence.

> how would the police be expected to act when dealing with a potential trafficker with a fake passport?

I mean, maybe he had an amazing fake passport and body cavities full of drugs but it is a bit difficult to roll the dice on those assumptions if 1) the passport is real 2) he didn't.

They didn't have evidence. I've dabbled in my fare share of narcotics as well, and if you could "smell" it. It was only possible to mean some sort of cannibus. What human could smell an oz of Coke inside another human? Seems like a pretty broad over reach here, either straight up incompetence or racism.

[raverbashing]

Yes, the smell was specified in the article, you can't smell anything else

[slowmotiony]

What does that even mean, a "potential trafficker"? I say that you are a potential trafficker, is it then alright for the police to make you take off all your clothes?

[raverbashing]

If you say that then the police will evaluate your statement together with the situation it is presented and the other information they might have on the involved persons

Which does not imply all the actions taken were correct

[mathgeek]

Consider this: the police themselves are potential traffickers with fake passports when they're off duty and out of uniform.

[alistairSH]

One could argue they're more likely to be traffickers when ON duty. Who's going to pull over the police and search them for drugs?

[paulsutter]

You mean, a "potential trafficker with a fake passport" like you personally? Or, only if it's somebody else?

[airza]

where did you see that this passport is fake?

[raverbashing]

It might be a suspicion regardless, especially if the police was given a tip, the situation of the inspection and the fact that there was no way of establishing nationality by other means (like speaking the language, which might have helped)