What's wrong with this?

Mich. cop avoids charge for pot brownies
Associated Press (Thursday, May 10, 2007)

DEARBORN, Mich. - A police officer will avoid criminal charges despite admitting he took marijuana from criminal suspects and, with his wife, baked it into brownies.

The police department's decision not to pursue a case against former Cpl. Edward Sanchez left a bad taste in the mouth of at least one city official, who vowed to investigate.

"If you're a cop and you're arresting people and you're confiscating the marijuana and keeping it yourself, that's bad. That's real bad," said City Councilman Doug Thomas.

Sanchez, who resigned last year from the department in this Detroit suburb, declined comment Wednesday to the Detroit Free Press. Police Cmdr. Jeff Geisinger did not return calls seeking comment.

The department's investigation began with a 911 call from Sanchez's home on April 21, 2006. On a 5-minute tape of the call, obtained by the Free Press, Sanchez told an emergency dispatcher he thought he and his wife were overdosing on marijuana.

"I think we're dying," he said. "We made brownies and I think we're dead, I really do."

Sanchez later told police investigators that his wife took the marijuana out of his police vehicle while he was sleeping. In a subsequent interview, he admitted he got the marijuana out of the car himself and put it in the brownie mix, police said.

His wife also was not charged.

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I find something extremely wrong with this story. As in, this is bullshit!

This is just one more story of abuse of power by those who are SUPPOSED to live by the motto, "Protect and Serve."

Please understand that I know that not all cops are bad apples. However, if a police officer is using cannabis and is not punished for his illegal actions, why are the prisons full of offenders whose only offense is using or distributing cannabis?

I find it extremely unfair that a person can openly participate in illegal activity without legal ramifications - JUST because he knows the right people and made the "right" career choice, but anyone else who would have called and admitted to illegal activity during a 911 call would have found themselves cuffed and in the back of a squad car.

I call BULLSHIT!