Arathain Kelvar wrote:
Sure I am. And what exactly do you feel disqualifies me?
Beyond the fact that you're simply taking it upoin yourself to define "protect and serve"? Who appointed you to this position?
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Nonsense. She turned it in because she suspected she might be breaking the law by keeping it. YOU are saying she wasn't, clearly she didn't believe that.
No, she turned it in because she was suspicious of the circumstances under which she received it, and understandably so. Try reading your own article.
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Knutson did not know the woman and has not seen her since, Richie said. Knutson thought it was "strange" that the woman told her to keep it but she took it inside. The box felt too heavy to be leftovers, Ritchie said, so she opened it -- only to find bundles of cash wrapped in rubber bands.
"Even though I desperately needed the money as my husband and I have five children, I feel I did the right thing by calling the Moorhead Police," Knutson said in the lawsuit.
She says she felt she did the right thing. That does not in any way extend to mean that she felt she would have been breaking the law if she didn't. "Doing the right thing" does not necessarily mean "doing the legal thing".
You are injecting reasoning into her actions beyond what her words directly indicate in order to have an excuse to find fault with the cops.
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No one is being punished here. Either she'll come out $1,000 ahead, or she'll come out $12,000 ahead if she files for a judicial forfieture hearing and wins. Hoiw exactly is that being "punished"?
In order to come out $2000 ahead, they'd have to return $14k to her.
That's $1,000 ahead, not $2,000, and they gave her a $1,000 reward, which you and a few others, are studiously ignoring even though it's in your OP. Furthermore, since they DID give her the money and there's no indication she took the reward back, it looks like she DID come out $13,000 (not $14,000) ahead.
Even if she'd only gotten the $1,000, she'd still be $1,000 ahead of where she was when the whole chain of events started. She was the one who opted to decline ownership of the money and turn it into the police, so if she never got it back, she wouldn't have "lost" anything. She had the option to take the money home and keep it. She declined. All you're doing her is looking for reasons to justify your own knee-jerk dislike of the police.
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