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When Cops Become the Gangsters
The pattern of small gangs of cops committing predatory crimes has occured in almost every large city in the nation and in a great many less-populated areas, as well.
The lure of fortunes to be made in illegal drugs has led to thousands of police felonies: armed robbery, kidnapping, stealing drugs, selling drugs, perjury, framing people, and even some murders. These police crimes were committed on duty, often often while the cop-gangsters were wearing their uniforms, the symbols of saftey to the people they were supposed to be protecting.
POlitical corruption will be a major problem as long as we cling to the present drug policies. The Code of Silence cannot be totally eliminated. But the harm to good cops and to society can be reduced if politicians abandon their demagogic calls for a police war against drugs. Police officers who are true partners with the community in reducing crime will be far more likely to report thugs on the force tha cops who think they are part of a warring occupation army.
The pattern of small gangs of cops committing predatory crimes has occured in almost every large city in the nation and in a great many less-populated areas, as well.
The lure of fortunes to be made in illegal drugs has led to thousands of police felonies: armed robbery, kidnapping, stealing drugs, selling drugs, perjury, framing people, and even some murders. These police crimes were committed on duty, often often while the cop-gangsters were wearing their uniforms, the symbols of saftey to the people they were supposed to be protecting.
POlitical corruption will be a major problem as long as we cling to the present drug policies. The Code of Silence cannot be totally eliminated. But the harm to good cops and to society can be reduced if politicians abandon their demagogic calls for a police war against drugs. Police officers who are true partners with the community in reducing crime will be far more likely to report thugs on the force tha cops who think they are part of a warring occupation army.