A 9-hour drug raid in Lakeland, FL might not have taken as long if the raiding officers hadnât spent an hour playing Wii in the suspect's home. Little did they know, there was a hidden camera running the whole time:
I suppose this is pretty amateur stuff when it comes to police misconduct in the war on drugs, but there's still no excuse for it. Too often, we hear police defending the drug war as some sort of grand noble crusade for the salvation of our society. Apparently, for some of these guys, it's more of a personal playground than an epic battle to save our civilization.
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