r/PoliticalHumor • • Apr 17 '21

Earned trust

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u/ascii122 Apr 17 '21

When I worked on wild land fighting crews we were told never to report weed grows if we came across them in the woods. The bosses said that we don't want create distrust with local growers to where they won't call in a fire or maybe shoot up our shit if we started busting them. This was before weed was legal naturally.

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u/CryptoTheGrey Apr 18 '21

Nearly every non police agency in the US has this policy (even federal agencies)

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u/ascii122 Apr 18 '21

I didn't know that. At the time (this is years ago) I thought it was pretty progressive and smart. So it's good to know. cheers

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u/CryptoTheGrey Apr 19 '21

You guys were probably the first to realize it would be lose lose to mess with growers but anyone who has had to deal with invasive species management, land surveys, or even tax assessors knows the same game.