The KSHB 41 I-Team obtained three affidavits in relation to the raids on Marion County Record, the newspaper owner’s home and the city vice mayor’s home.

The affidavits, provided by the attorney for the newspaper, lay out what evidence police used to get a judge to sign off on the warrant to search the properties.

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    Small town pissing contest becomes nationwide concern because once again police show everyone that they believe they are the law. The irony in this is the paper never even had to publish the story to get it out. The cops did that with their actions.

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      It’s really amazing. Literally everyone in the US would have continued to not know or care about these people until this blew up - and it’s all their own doing! It’s like the Streisand Effect, but without the subjects already being in any way already known or noteworthy.

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    Hopefully every fucking warrant for the last decade get combed through with a magnifying glass and every one of these criminals face charges.

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      Don’t worry, an independent panel of police officers already found them innocent of any wrongdoing.

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        It was so obvious they are innocent that the panel didn’t have to even go there or look at anything.

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          To top it off, they awarded those under investigation an extra month of PTO and a settlement for the PTSD they experienced for being under such scrutiny!

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    if you look into statistics of how many warrants are actually denied, you might be shocked. i wont, cuz ive seen it… but its <1% in some places.

    the judges, and actually more acutely important in this process, the DA are a part of the corruption.

    DAs are elected, and so, their motive already suspect. . they also have to work daily with the police department, and so, have incentive to be ‘on their side’. the judges half the time are asleep doing whateverthefuck the DA is feeding them, and of course, no cop is every wrong for good-ol-white-boy reasons (this is not a southern phenomena) .

    so imagine your typical small town with all this mild corruption and zero accountability on ‘issued warrants’. welcome to the u-s-of-a

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      @originalucifer @MicroWave

      I’ve never quite understood why almost the whole American justice system is elected. I mean it’s just asking to be abused when appointees are beholden to the money and power that got them elected in the first place.

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    So someone at the newspaper obtained a driving record from state computers, possibly illegally. And someone at the newspaper threatened to publish a story about it.

    Doesn’t seem like enough to tear apart the whole organization but I’m no lawyer.

    ETA: Corrected above, not an officer, a restaurant owner. Athos78 and teft explain it pretty well in the replies.

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      One correction: The driving record was for a restaurant owner, not a police officer.

      The whole thing is shitty. The restaurant owner had a DUI years ago, which she was hiding because she really wanted her restaurant to get a (very lucrative) alcohol license. She was also repeatedly driving on a suspended license due to the DUI, something that the the local cops knew and completely ignored. Possibly because the DA’s brother owns the hotel the restaurant is in, and once they have an alcohol license he can raise the rent, maybe by an indecent amount. Oh, and multiple people have alleged that the police chief left his previous paid-twice-as-much job in Kansas City due to multiple serious accusations of sexual assault.

      The Marion Record had investigated both the DUI and the sexual assault allegations, but had decided not to print either story due to journalistic concerns (they suspected the divorcing husband may have illegally accessed his wife’s accounts to send them copies of the DUI information, and none of the people bringing up the police chief’s alleged history would go on the record and the KC police personnel department wouldn’t give any information either).

      Some locals says that the Record is “too aggressive” in it’s reporting, while others think that revealing this kind of thing is what newspapers are supposed to do. And in the meantime, the restaurant owner has gotten her liquor license, the hotel owner can (presumably) raise the rent, and the police chief got to keep the newspaper’s computers for five days - including (just ever-so-conveniently) the computer that contained the information the paper had on the people who were saying the police chief had left because of the sexual assault allegations. But I’m sure he never tried to find that information in the five days they had the computers because that would’ve been unethical, wouldn’t it …

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      So someone at the newspaper obtained an officer’s driving record from state computers, possibly illegally.

      Accessing public websites is legal everywhere in the country.

      And someone at the newspaper threatened to publish a story about the officer.

      This is also legal everywhere in the country.

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      possibly illegally

      Gotta love when boot lickers assume cops never break the law for evidence and journalists have to break the law to get a story.