[john70t]

Not to defend the officer at all..but..
The I-75 and the I-10 corridor are both major routes for drug smuggling N-S and E-W.

Many thousands or millions of pounds of drugs flow through the highway system every year.
The officers are probably under great pressure from above to perform.
Or there is just pure laziness.
This guy might have been vying for Desk Sargent and a cushy retirement at a very young age.

If he was planting evidence on innocent people, then the facts should play out, and consequences should be dealt out.
(but it would also presume that hundreds of lawyers/prosecutors/judges/laws did not perform their duties to seek the truth.)


One thing I do not like about this type of story is that it becomes "all vs. nothing".
There might have been many criminals and disrupted crimes mixed into that history.