A South Dakota state trooper spent his time systematically profiling cars with license plates from states with legal cannabis until a Washington man stood his ground. Cannabis is legal in Washington but South Dakota convicted African-American Donald Willingham with multiple counts in Pennington County after Trooper Zach Bader illegally profiled the vehicle in which he was riding on Interstate 90. Recall that in 2012 short guy power hungry Bader accosted a Montana family instead of policing Sturgis Rally traffic.
In 2017 Brian Biehl of Platte went to jail for taking nearly $70,000 confiscated during drug searches while he was employed as a South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper.
The overwhelming number of people profiled from legal cannabis states on I-90 are persons of color as is the population of South Dakota’s prisons.
Now, the law enforcement industry is struggling to hire especially West River and is short some twenty five personnel or about 12 percent of its mercenary force even though members of the state polizei start at $30.46 per hour plus an additional $2.00 per hour for a night shift and $2.00 per hour on weekends.
And, we all know cops' lives suck because they reliably abuse the rule of law, their families, alcohol, drugs, food, power, detainees and occasionally murder their wives; nevertheless, police unions are showered with cash while teachers' unions get the shaft.
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"Since the beginning of the 2025 calendar year, 18 men have died in South Dakota prisons, at least four by suicide. Another three men died from drug overdoses." SD Searchlight
Brookings County is a shitty place to work, too: source.
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