Police need to have descretion. Every time you sail past a police officer doing 4 mph over the limit, you're glad they do. However, ignoring federal and state law for political pandering is going too far. Now some one is trying to stop them from ignoring the immigration status of drug offenders by taking them to court:
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Illegal immigration opponents have sued the Los Angeles Police Department, taking aim at its long-standing policy of ignoring most suspects' immigration status.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Superior Court seeks to force officers to inform federal immigration officials when illegal immigrants are arrested on drug charges.
The department prohibits officers from inquiring about the immigration status of suspects, a policy strongly supported by Police Chief William Bratton and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa...
Sooner or later, conservatives were bound to discover the power of the courts. Not that this is in any way contrary to our dearly loved doctrine of original intent.
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