<<Thanks, Roz, for your anecdote about police misconduct in drug busts. I'm not sure it's what I'm looking for, though, because its relation to specifically political activism is unclear. Can anyone suggest more-pertinent examples?>> Ah, political activism. My memory in the Sixties , if you had long hair, if you were a hippie, a brown or black person , if you had the wrong political bumper sticker on you VW or car, if you were on your way to or from a demonstration or a concert, or if you were in the right place at the wrong time or the wrong place at the right time you could be stopped by a bad cop and either busted or harrassed. And, are drug busts always not political? Hey, it sounds like today. What are you looking for, police informers in political groups, police pretending not to be police? FBI Counterintelligence work against folks. I know of lots of stories from life , working in political groups, and 12 years in a law office, of bad cops, FBI agents, Police Informers . Anyone close to Vietnam Vets and the Yippies can tell you stories. << Can anyone suggest more-pertinent examples?>> Please be more specific in what you are looking for and perhaps I will be able to tell you story of a bad cop that is pertinent. my best, roz payne
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