| Police organizations don't seem to be particularly good at learning lessons from these sorts of mishaps. I heard a story a number of years ago in Silver Spring, MD, about how the police were confused by a large marijuana delivery they intercepted to an unwitting person's address, who was arrested, and would have been charged and likely convicted under the circumstances. It turns out the driver was the intended recipient, which they discovered the very next week when another delivery was intercepted at the warehouse, with the driver in common. This isn't an uncommon tale. And yet, barely a few years later, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor'..., with the key result of the sheriff declaring, despite the killing of the mayor's two dogs after breaching the door, "We'd do it again. Tonight." Cautionary tales like this should spread like wildfire, but it appears that perhaps they do not, or LEA are rather immovable with respect to their suspicions. (and apparently I know very little about the relationship between cities and law enforcement in Maryland; it's more complicated than I thought) |